This working-day world : women's lives and culture(s) in Britain 1914-1945 /: women's lives and culture(s) in Britain 1914-1945. (2022)
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- Title:
- This working-day world : women's lives and culture(s) in Britain 1914-1945 /: women's lives and culture(s) in Britain 1914-1945. (2022)
- Main Title:
- This working-day world : women's lives and culture(s) in Britain 1914-1945
- Further Information:
- Note: Edited by Sybil Oldfield.
- Editors:
- Oldfield, Sybil
- Contents:
- List of Illustrations. Acknowledgements. Introduction Sybil Oldfield . Section I: Social History 1. The Weekly Wash Christine Zmroczek 2. A ‘Trade Union for Married Women’: The Women’s Co-operative Guild 1914–1920 Gillian Scott 3. The Women’s Institute Movement – The Acceptable Face of Feminism? Maggie Morgan 4. A Woman’s Right to Work? The Role of Women in the Unemployed Movement Between the Wars Sue Bruley 5. The Culture of Femininity in Women’s Teacher Training Colleges 1914–1945 Elizabeth Edwards 6. The Diary of Doreen Bates: Single Parenthood and the Civil Service Elizabeth McClair Section II: Political History 7. Gendering Patriotism: Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst and World War One Jacqueline de Vries 8. England’s Cassandras in World War One Sybil Oldfield 9. Women in the British Union of Fascists, 1932–1940 Martin Durham 10. British Feminists and Anti-Fascism in the 1930s Johanna Alberti 11. Working with the ‘Kindertransports ’ Veronica Gillespie 12. An Austrian Refugee in Wartime Manchester Hanna Behrend Section III: Cultural History 13. ‘A Fair Field and No Favour’: Women Artists Working in Britain Between the Wars Katy Deepwell 14. British Women Surrealists – Deviants from Deviance? Brigitte Libmann 15. Hilda Matheson and the BBC, 1926–1940 Fred Hunter 16. ‘Nothing is Impracticable for a Single, Middle-Aged Woman with an Income of her Own’: The Spinster in Women’s Fiction of the 1920s Maroula Joannou 17. Chloe, Olivia, Isabel, Letitia, Harriette, Honour, andList of Illustrations. Acknowledgements. Introduction Sybil Oldfield . Section I: Social History 1. The Weekly Wash Christine Zmroczek 2. A ‘Trade Union for Married Women’: The Women’s Co-operative Guild 1914–1920 Gillian Scott 3. The Women’s Institute Movement – The Acceptable Face of Feminism? Maggie Morgan 4. A Woman’s Right to Work? The Role of Women in the Unemployed Movement Between the Wars Sue Bruley 5. The Culture of Femininity in Women’s Teacher Training Colleges 1914–1945 Elizabeth Edwards 6. The Diary of Doreen Bates: Single Parenthood and the Civil Service Elizabeth McClair Section II: Political History 7. Gendering Patriotism: Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst and World War One Jacqueline de Vries 8. England’s Cassandras in World War One Sybil Oldfield 9. Women in the British Union of Fascists, 1932–1940 Martin Durham 10. British Feminists and Anti-Fascism in the 1930s Johanna Alberti 11. Working with the ‘Kindertransports ’ Veronica Gillespie 12. An Austrian Refugee in Wartime Manchester Hanna Behrend Section III: Cultural History 13. ‘A Fair Field and No Favour’: Women Artists Working in Britain Between the Wars Katy Deepwell 14. British Women Surrealists – Deviants from Deviance? Brigitte Libmann 15. Hilda Matheson and the BBC, 1926–1940 Fred Hunter 16. ‘Nothing is Impracticable for a Single, Middle-Aged Woman with an Income of her Own’: The Spinster in Women’s Fiction of the 1920s Maroula Joannou 17. Chloe, Olivia, Isabel, Letitia, Harriette, Honour, and Many More: Women in Medicine and Biomedical Science 1914–1945 Lesley A. Hall . Notes on Contributors. Appendix: Archive Resources for Research on 20th Century British Women. Index. … (more)
- Edition:
- 1st
- Publisher Details:
- London : Routledge
- Publication Date:
- 2022
- Extent:
- 1 online resource
- Subjects:
- 305.40941
Women -- Great Britain -- Social conditions
Women -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 20th century - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781000634259
9781000633252
9781003303756 - Related ISBNs:
- 9781032301730
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