Louise A Jackson

Women and Work Culture

Britain c.1850-1950
Herausgeber: Cowman, Krista

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

By focusing on the experiences of British women between 1850 and 1950, this collection vividly demonstrates that the association of 'work' with paid labour is problematic and that the categories of 'work', 'leisure' and 'consumption' must be viewed as overlapping and inter-linked rather than as separate entities.

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This volume brings together an interdisciplinary collection of essays on the cultural practices and identities associated with women's work in modern Britain. The volume is divided into five thematic sections: the meaning of work, factory labour, youth, medicine and science, and women and war. The essays examine a wide-range of primary sources including literary fiction, popular magazines, social commentaries, oral testimony and autobiographical writing.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juli 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780754650508
• ISBN-10: 0754650502
• Artikelnr.: 41252416

Autorenporträt

Dr Krista Cowman, The School of Cultural Studies at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK and Dr Louise A. Jackson, School of History and Classics, The University of Edinburgh, UK

Inhaltsangabe

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.