
Title:
This working-day world : women's lives and culture(s) in Britain, 1914-1945
Author:
Oldfield, Sybil.
ISBN:
9781315274379
9781351993722
Physical Description:
1 online resource (ix, 209 pages).
Series:
[Gender and society]
Feminist perspectives on the past and present
Feminist perspectives on the past and present.
Gender and society.
General Note:
Series only on jacket.
Contents:
chapter Introduction / part Section I Social History -- chapter 1 The Weekly Wash / chapter 2 A ‘Trade Union for Married Women’: The Women’s Co-operative Guild 1914–1920 / chapter 3 The Women’s Institute Movement— The Acceptable Face of Feminism& / chapter 4 A Woman’s Right to Work& The Role of Women in the Unemployed Movement Between the Wars / chapter 5 The Culture of Femininity in Women’s Teacher Training Colleges 1914–1945 / chapter 6 The Diary of Doreen Bates: Single Parenthood and the Civil Service / part Section II Political History -- chapter 7 Gendering Patriotism: Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst and World War One / chapter 8 England’s Cassandras in World War One / chapter 9 Women in the British Union of Fascists, 1932–1940 / chapter 10 British Feminists and Anti-Fascism in the 1930s / chapter 11 Working with the ‘Kindertransports’ / chapter 12 An Austrian Refugee in Wartime Manchester / part Section III Cultural History -- chapter 13 ‘A Fair Field and No Favour’: Women Artists Working in Britain Between the Wars / chapter 14 British Women Surrealists—Deviants from Deviance& / chapter 15 Hilda Matheson and the BBC, 1926–1940 / chapter 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 / chapter 17 Chloe, Olivia, Isabel, Letitia, Harriette, Honor, and Many More: Women in Medicine and Biomedical Science, 1914– 1945
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Library | Material Type | Item Barcode | Shelf Number | Status | Item Holds |
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Searching... | E-Book | 541520-1001 | HQ1593 .T457 1994 | Searching... | Searching... |
