Women and Work Culture

Women and Work Culture

Britain c.1850-1950

Cowman, Krista; Jackson, Louise A.

Taylor & Francis Ltd

07/2005

264

Dura

Inglês

9780754650508

15 a 20 dias

650

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Contents: Introduction: Women's work, a cultural history, Krista Cowman and Louise A. Jackson. Part I What Do We Mean by Work?: Victorian liberal feminism and the 'idea' of work, Joyce Senders Pedersen; Religion and the meanings of work: four cases from among the bright circle of women Quakers, Sandra Stanley Holton; Good housekeeping: professionalising the housewife, 1920-50, Judy Giles. Part II Factory Labour: 'Women of true respectability?' Investigating the London work-girl, 1880-1900, Emma Liggins; 'It was just a real camaraderie thing': socialising, socialisation and shopfloor culture at the Rowntree factory, York, Emma Robertson. Part III Youth: 'You'd the feeling you wanted to help': young women, employment and the family in inter-war England, Selina Todd; 'Be yourself': Girl and the business of growing up in late 1950s England, Stephanie Spencer. Part IV Science and Medicine: 'Union is strength': the medical women's federation and the politics of professionalism, 1917-30, Kaarin Michaelsen; The laboratory: a suitable place for a woman? Gender and laboratory culture around 1900, Claire Jones. Part V Women and War: All quiet on the Woolwich front? Literary and cultural constructions of women munitions workers in the First World War, Angela K. Smith; Eve in khaki: women working with the British military, 1915-18, Lucy Noakes; 'Singing while England is burning': women musicians as working music travellers in wartime Britain, 1940-43, David Sheridan. Index.
Young Man;working;Women's Trade Union Association;class;Women's Wartime Work;Joyce Senders Pedersen;Women's Army Auxiliary Corps;Sandra Stanley Holton;Civil Military Nexus;Judy Giles;London Work Girl;Emma Liggins;Vice Versa;Emma Robertson;Margaret Wood;Selina Todd;Independent Woman;Stephanie Spencer;Air Hostess;Kaarin Michaelsen;Women's Liberal Federation;Claire Jones;Woman Munitions Worker;Angela K. Smith;Residential Domestic Servants;Noakes Lucy;Married Women;David Sheridan;Militant Women's Social;Margaret Tanner;Helen Bright;Medical Women;MWF;Female Physicians;WVR;Shopfloor Culture;Music Travellers;Government Bodies;Invisible Women