Leonore Davidoff
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American historian and sociologist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Leonore Davidoff was a feminist historian and sociologist who pioneered new approaches to women's history and gender relations, including through her analysis of the gendered division of roles in public and private spheres. She helped create the Feminist Library in London in 1975. She was also the founding editor of the academic journal Gender & History. For much of her academic career, Davidoff was based at the University of Essex in the UK, and was a Professor Emerita when she died.
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- Family Fortunes: Men and Women of the English Middle Class 1780-1850 (1987) (939)
- Worlds Between: Historical Perspectives on Gender and Class (1995) (128)
- Multiple chemical sensitivities syndrome: toward a working case definition. (1993) (118)
- The best circles;: Society, etiquette and the season (1973) (87)
- Gender and the "Great Divide": Public and Private in British Gender History (2003) (73)
- Class, Sect and Party: The Making of the British Middle Class. Leeds 1820-1850. (1992) (69)
- Thicker than Water: Siblings and their Relations, 1780-1920 (2012) (66)
- The family story : blood, contract and intimacy, 1830-1960 (1999) (60)
- Class and Gender in Victorian England: The Diaries of Arthur J. Munby Mnuby and Hannah Cullwick (1979) (54)
- The Family Story: Blood, Contract and Intimacy (1998) (52)
- Women and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century England. (1981) (34)
- The family in Britain (1990) (34)
- Illness from chemical "odors": is the health significance understood? (1992) (27)
- Kinship as a Categorical Concept: A Case Study of Nineteenth Century English Siblings (2005) (21)
- The Separation of Home and Work? Landladies and Lodgers in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century England (2013) (19)
- Gender and history : retrospect and prospect (1999) (16)
- Our Work, Our Lives, Our Words/Women's History and Women's Work (1986) (15)
- THE LEGACY OF THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY BOURGEOIS FAMILY AND THE WOOL MERCHANT'S SON (2004) (14)
- Women's Work and the Family Economy in Historical Perspective (1993) (12)
- ‘Adam spoke first and named the orders of the World’: Masculine and Feminine Domains in History and Sociology (1990) (12)
- The sibling relationship and sibling incest in historical context (2018) (10)
- Our work, our lives, our words (1986) (10)
- Multiple chemical sensitivities (MCS) (1991) (7)
- The Rationalisation of Housework (1991) (7)
- ‘From Queen Victoria to the Jazz Age’: Women’s World in England, 1880–1939 (1986) (6)
- A day in the life of a Victorian domestic servant (1976) (6)
- Silent Sisterhood: Middle Class Women in the Victorian Home (1976) (4)
- Family Life in the Long Nineteenth Century, 1789–1913 (2004) (4)
- Family Fortunes (2018) (4)
- Introduction: Gender and History – Retrospect and Prospect (1999) (4)
- A Shifting Shore: Locals, Outsiders, and the Transformation of a French Fishing Town (review) (2005) (1)
- 'My own fireside': the creation of the middle-class home (2018) (1)
- 'The hidden investment': women and the enterprise (2013) (1)
- Twenty Years On: remembering the origins of the Women's History Network (UK) (2013) (1)
- Setting the scene (2018) (0)
- 'Improving times': men, women and the public sphere (2013) (0)
- The People and the Setting (2011) (0)
- Our Work, Our Lives, Our Worlds: Women's History and Women's Work.@@@Gender and the Labour Process (1987) (0)
- 'The nursery of virtue': domestic ideology and the middle class (2018) (0)
- 'A modest competency': men, women and property (2013) (0)
- Index to Volume 11, 1999 (1999) (0)
- Sibling Silences: The Freud Family (2011) (0)
- 'Lofty pine and slender vine': living with gender in the middle class (2018) (0)
- A Dance of Intimacy and Separation: Siblings in Adulthood (2011) (0)
- [Sibling incest in the English late-18th- and early-19th-century middle class]. (2002) (0)
- The Rise of the Egalitarian Family: Aristocratic Kinship and Domestic Relations in Eighteenth Century England (1980) (0)
- The Rise and Fall of Close Marriage (2011) (0)
- Introduction to Part Three (2018) (0)
- Kin and Family: Expert Opinions and Popular Views (2011) (0)
- 'A man must act': men and the enterprise (2018) (0)
- Introduction to Part Two (2018) (0)
- 'Ye are all one in Christ Jesus': men, women and religion (2018) (0)
- ‘Improving times’: men, women and the public sphere (2018) (0)
- 'Our family is a little world': family structure and relationships (2018) (0)
- Sibling Intimacy and the Question of Incest (2011) (0)
- A Class in the Making (1988) (0)
- Forgotten Figures: Aunts, Uncles, Nieces, Nephews, and Cousins (2011) (0)
- Gender, Age, and Authority: The Case of Anne, William Ewart, and Helen Gladstone (2011) (0)
- 'The one thing needful': religion and the middle class (2018) (0)
- Introduction to Part One (2018) (0)
- The ‘Long Family’ and its Decline1 (2011) (0)
- A Like Unlike: Siblings in Childhood and Youth (2011) (0)
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