Women in Fifties Britain

Women in Fifties Britain
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 374
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ISBN-10 : 9781351591171
ISBN-13 : 1351591177
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Book Synopsis Women in Fifties Britain by : Penny Tinkler

Download or read book Women in Fifties Britain written by Penny Tinkler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-22 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contented housewives, glamorous women, jive-mad teenagers – all are common figures in popular perceptions of 1950s Britain. But what more did it mean to be a girl or woman in the fifties? And what are the implications of this history for understanding post-war Britain? Women in Fifties Britain explores the lived experience of girls and women, and the way in which their story has been told. Crossing boundaries – disciplinary, conceptual and thematic – and drawing creatively on new and established sources, it extends and enriches the terrain of women’s history. Diverse groups of women come into view, including farmer’s wives, university-educated women, activist housewives, working mothers, Jewish refugees, girls ‘at risk’ and private secretaries. Revealing that their private, public and professional lives were central to reshaping society, the collection engages with the legacy of World War II, and with questions about the distinctiveness of the 1950s. Embracing emotion, labour, gender, class, race, sociability, sexuality and much more, the authors offer penetrating exploration of established and new categories of historical analysis. Placing the politics of gender at the heart of Britain’s reconstruction, this engaging and important collection re-visions 1950s Britain and the women that made it. This book was originally published as a special issue of Women’s History Review.


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