Girls and their families in an era of economic change. (December 2020)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Girls and their families in an era of economic change. (December 2020)
- Main Title:
- Girls and their families in an era of economic change
- Authors:
- Humphries, Jane
- Abstract:
- Abstract: The paper uses autobiographical accounts by 227 working women alongside a larger sample of men's life stories to compare girls' and boys' experiences of first jobs, schooling and family life in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It asks whether girls were disadvantaged in seizing the opportunities and fending off the threats to wellbeing occasioned by economic change. Girls were more likely than boys to experience sexual harassment and this constrained the ways in which they could earn a living and live their lives. Fathers as breadwinners merited respect and often affection, but it was mothers with whom girls identified.
- Is Part Of:
- Continuity and change. Volume 35:Number 3(2020)
- Journal:
- Continuity and change
- Issue:
- Volume 35:Number 3(2020)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 35, Issue 3 (2020)
- Year:
- 2020
- Volume:
- 35
- Issue:
- 3
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2020-0035-0003-0000
- Page Start:
- 311
- Page End:
- 343
- Publication Date:
- 2020-12
- Subjects:
- Social change -- Periodicals
303.405 - Journal URLs:
- http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=CON ↗
- DOI:
- 10.1017/S0268416020000247 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0268-4160
- Deposit Type:
- Legaldeposit
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- 15170.xml