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<p>"The Victorian period saw an unprecedented rise in the number of people who were committed to 'lunatic asylums'. We know something of why this happened, but far less about what life was like inside these institutions. Louise Hide explores the influence of wider socio-economic change and new medical theories on the practices and processes, routines and rhythms of the asylum as it began its transition to the mental hospital. What made the patient admission process so traumatic? How did attendants respond to the arrival of female nurses on male wards? Why were so many doctors on the verge of a breakdown themselves? In this meticulously researched and intriguing work, Hide has opened a chink through which to glimpse the lives of patients, doctors and nursing staff inside two vast London county asylums during the turn of the twentieth century"--</p>

Gender and class in English asylums, 1890-1914 / Louise Hide Honorary Research Fellow, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK.

History workshop series

xii, 338 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm.

Independent spirits : Spiritualism and English plebeians, 1850-1910 / Logie Barrow.

<p>"In this book, Sarah Levin-Richardson offers the first authoritative examination of Pompeii's purpose-built brothel, the only verifiable brothel from Greco-Roman antiquity. Taking readers on a tour of all of the structure's evidence, including the rarely seen upper floor, she illuminates the subculture housed within its walls. Here, prostitutes could flout the norms of society and proclaim themselves sexual subjects and agents, while servile clients were allowed to act as 'real men'. Prostitutes and clients also exchanged gifts, greetings, jokes, taunts, and praise. Written in a clear, engaging style, and accompanied by an ample illustration program and translations of humorous and haunting graffiti, Levin-Richardson's book will become a new touchstone for those interested in the history of women, slavery, and prostitution in the classical world."--Publisher's description.</p>

xix, 243 pages : black and white illustrations ; 26 cm

The brothel of Pompeii : sex, class, and gender at the margins of Roman society / Sarah Levin-Richardson, University of Washington, Seattle.

English society in the later Middle Ages : class, status, and gender / S.H. Rigby.

Moving between worlds : gender, class, politics, sexuality and women's networks in the diaries of Anne Lister of Shiben Hall, Halifax, Yorkshire, 1830-1840 / Catherine A. Euler.

Hegemony and experience

Festival of the poor : fertility decline & the ideology of class in Sicily, 1860-1980 / Jane C. Schneider, Peter T. Schneider.

Classifying the universe : the ancient Indian Varṇa system and the origins of caste / Brian K. Smith.

Studies on the history of society and culture

xv, 251 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cm.

Politics, culture, and class in the French Revolution / Lynn Hunt.

The creation of the modern child subject : children's literature, pedagogy, pediatrics, and the politics of class in late eighteenth-century England / by Andrew S. O'Malley.

The Bourgeois experience, Victoria to Freud

x, 685 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.

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Gender and class in English asylums, 1890-1914 / Louise Hide Honorary Research Fellow, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK.

Independent spirits : Spiritualism and English plebeians, 1850-1910 / Logie Barrow.

The brothel of Pompeii : sex, class, and gender at the margins of Roman society / Sarah Levin-Richardson, University of Washington, Seattle.

English society in the later Middle Ages : class, status, and gender / S.H. Rigby.

Moving between worlds : gender, class, politics, sexuality and women's networks in the diaries of Anne Lister of Shiben Hall, Halifax, Yorkshire, 1830-1840 / Catherine A. Euler.

Festival of the poor : fertility decline & the ideology of class in Sicily, 1860-1980 / Jane C. Schneider, Peter T. Schneider.

Classifying the universe : the ancient Indian Varṇa system and the origins of caste / Brian K. Smith.

Politics, culture, and class in the French Revolution / Lynn Hunt.

The creation of the modern child subject : children's literature, pedagogy, pediatrics, and the politics of class in late eighteenth-century England / by Andrew S. O'Malley.

The cultivation of hatred / Peter Gay.

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Gender and class in English asylums, 1890-1914 / Louise Hide Honorary Research Fellow, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK.

Independent spirits : Spiritualism and English plebeians, 1850-1910 / Logie Barrow.

The brothel of Pompeii : sex, class, and gender at the margins of Roman society / Sarah Levin-Richardson, University of Washington, Seattle.

English society in the later Middle Ages : class, status, and gender / S.H. Rigby.

Moving between worlds : gender, class, politics, sexuality and women's networks in the diaries of Anne Lister of Shiben Hall, Halifax, Yorkshire, 1830-1840 / Catherine A. Euler.

Festival of the poor : fertility decline & the ideology of class in Sicily, 1860-1980 / Jane C. Schneider, Peter T. Schneider.

Classifying the universe : the ancient Indian Varṇa system and the origins of caste / Brian K. Smith.

Politics, culture, and class in the French Revolution / Lynn Hunt.

The creation of the modern child subject : children's literature, pedagogy, pediatrics, and the politics of class in late eighteenth-century England / by Andrew S. O'Malley.

The cultivation of hatred / Peter Gay.

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