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1. Gender: The Key Concepts

   Edited by Mary Evans, Carolyn Williams

   Series: Routledge Key Guides

   This invaluable volume provides an overview of 37 terms, theories and concepts frequently used in gender studies which those studying the subject can find difficult to grasp. Each entry provides a critical definition of the concept, examining the background to the idea, its usage and the major...

   To Be Published October 30th 2012 by Routledge
2. Jane Austen and the State (RLE Jane Austen)

   By Mary Evans

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Jane Austen

   Jane Austen is often associated with conservatism and her novels are often seen as light entertainment depicting a vanished world and its manners. Mary Evan's study, first published in 1987, seeks to contradict the conventional wisdom regarding Austen's social and political leanings and&...

   Published September 6th 2011 by Routledge
3. Engels Revisited (Routledge Revivals)

   Feminist Essays

   Edited by Janet Sayers, Mary Evans, Nanneke Redclift

   This reissued work, first published in 1987, examines the problematic and divisive attitudes which bourgeois and socialist feminists take to the question of the links between patriarchy and capitalism and the importance of class conflict as a major cause of women's subordination....

   Published July 13th 2011 by Routledge
4. Gender

   Edited by Mary Evans

   New from the Routledge Major Works programme, this landmark title is a four-volume collection of canonical and the very best cutting-edge research on gender. Taking gender to mean both the forms of identity which follow biological definitions of sex (the social identities of male and female,...

   Published November 9th 2010 by Routledge
5. Feminism

   Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies

   Edited by Mary Evans

   Series: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies

   Feminism has always refused compartmentalisation within any one social context, and this collection attests to its universal relevance. This is a guide for specialist and non-specialist readers to the many debates and discussions to which feminists have contributed in the past two hundred years.The...

   Published October 25th 2000 by Routledge
6. Missing Persons

   The Impossibility of Auto/Biography

   By Mary Evans

   Auto/biography is currently one of the most popular literary genres, widely supposed to illuminate the study of the individual and his or her personal circumstances. Missing Persons suggests that auto/biography is, in fact, based on fictions, both about the person and about what it is possible to...

   Published December 9th 1998 by Routledge
7. The Battle for Britain

   Citizenship and Ideology in the Second World War

   By Mary Evans, David Morgan

   It is generally accepted that Britain was held together during the second world war by a spirit of national democratic `consensus'. But whose interests did the consensus serve? And how did it unravel in the years immediately after victory? This well observed and powerfully argued book overturns...

   Published December 2nd 1992 by Routledge