Women in Britain since 1900

1999
ISBN: 978-0-333-61839-4
Verlag: Red Globe Press

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Book, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 339 g

Reihe: Social History in Perspective

This is the first text devoted exclusively to women in Britain since 1900 which covers the whole century. The author combines evidence from primary research, with an emphasis on personal testimony, with the most up-to-date work of specialist scholars in each field. Embracing social, economic, political and cultural history, it examines the changing meaning of femininity within the broad historical time periods making up the twentieth century. Each chronological chapter maps out developments for women at work, in the family, sexuality, education, feminism and other political movements. It does not seek to provide a triumphalist history of 'great women', but instead offers an account of women's shifting identity within different social, economic and political contexts, divided by class, sexuality, ethnic background and other factors. Blending analysis with humour and emotion in real life testimony, Women in Britain since 1900 is a woman-centred history of Britain from the suffragettes to the 'Diana effect'.

Zielgruppe

Lower undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bruley, Sue

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements.- Introduction.- 'The Bitter Cry of Outcast Women': The Early Years.- 'No Time to Weep': The First World War.- 'The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same': The Interwar Years.- 'We Can Do It!': The Second World War.- From Austerity to Prosperity and The Pill: The Post War Era.- Second Wave and Beyond: Towards the Millennium.- Conclusion.- Select Bibliography.- Index.

Über Autor(innen)

SUE BRULEY is Senior Lecturer in Historical Studies at the University of Portsmouth