Tracing the campaign for marriage equality, this book highlights how this movement and the related referendum result have propelled... Læs mere
Investigates women’s employment in the British Civil Service and London County Council during the twentieth century, providing a new perspective on the development of the women’s movement. -- .
This book provides an extensive overview of the British actors who achieved their greatest stardom during the 1950s. This was a transitional period for... Læs mere
Gunslinging justice examines gun violence in Western films and literature alongside changes in justifiable homicide and gun rights in the United States. -- .
This is the first edited collection of essays which focuses on the incest taboo and its literary and cultural presentation from the 1950s to the present day; including... Læs mere
Challenges dominant accounts of gender and sexuality in Gothic literature by demonstrating the complexities of the incest thematic through interdisciplinary readings of incest in texts from 1764–1847. -- .
This landmark book reveals that resistance to occupation by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy during the Second World War was not... Læs mere
This collection of essays provides the most comprehensive study of the theory and practice of the... Læs mere
This is a comprehensive and definitive study of the Man Booker Prize-winning novelist, Howard Jacobson. It offers lucid, detailed and nuanced readings of each of Jacobson’s novels, and... Læs mere
This volume explores key issues that are currently at the forefront of the EU’s relations with... Læs mere
This book moves beyond the examination of grave goods to place community at the forefront of cemetery studies. It reveals that early... Læs mere
As museums across Europe reckon with the post-colonial legacies of their collections, this volume combines approaches from... Læs mere