Communities of women : historical perspectives /

Communities of women : historical perspectives / edited by Barbara Brookes and Dorothy Page. - 229 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 182-222) and index.

Community, life cycle, diaspora : a daughter's view / Anna Davin -- The communities of a thirteenth-century holy woman, Ida of Nivelles / Jennifer Carpenter -- Herrad of Hohenbourg's Hortus deliciarum and the creation of images for medieval nuns / Judith Collard -- Native American women's use of Connecticut's colonial courts / Katharine Hermes & Alexandra Maravel -- Women's peculiar mission : ladies' benevolence in the New Zealand setting / Margaret Tennant -- Sustaining the vision from Adelaide to Temuka : a Josephite community is founded in New Zealand in 1883 / Ann Gilroy -- Anything but a roll in the hay : romance in rural communities in Federation Australia / Kate Hunter -- Dissecting a community : women medical students at the University of Otago, 1891-1924 / Dorothy Page -- Women working for women at work : women factory inspectors in Britain, 1893-1921 / Barbara Harrison -- Gender and the politics of keeping left : Wellington labour women and their community, 1912-1949 / Melanie Nolan -- Political communities of women / Marilyn Lake.

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Women--Social conditions--20th century.
Women--History--20th century

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