This Working-Day World: Women's Lives And Culture(s) In Britain, 1914-1945Sybil Oldfield This is a collection of essays on aspects of British women's lives in the period 1914-1945. Concentrating on women's activities in many different areas ranging from teacher training colleges to women's institutes; the BBC artiste's group to political militancy. "This Working Day World" presents a women's cultural history that is a kaleidoscope of sub- cultures, covering art, fiction, medicine, political racialism and the personal lives of women. |
Contents
The Weekly Wash | 7 |
A Trade Union for Married Women The Womens Cooperative Guild 19141920 | 18 |
The Womens Institute Movement The Acceptable Face of Feminism? | 29 |
A Womans Right to Work? The Role of Women in the Unemployed Movement Between the Wars | 40 |
The Culture of Femininity in Womens Teacher Training Colleges 19141945 | 54 |
The Diary of Doreen Bates Single Parenthood and the Civil Service | 68 |
Political History | 73 |
Gendering Patriotism Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst and World War One | 75 |
An Austrian Refugee in Wartime Manchester | 133 |
Cultural History | 139 |
A Fair Field and No Favour Women Artists Working in Britain Between the Wars | 141 |
British Women Surrealists Deviants from Deviance? | 156 |
Hilda Matheson and the BBC 19261940 | 169 |
Nothing is Impracticable for a Single MiddleAged Woman with an Income of her Own The Spinster in Womens Fiction of the 1920s | 175 |
Chloe Olivia Isabel Letitia Harriette Honor and Many More Women in Medicine and Biomedical Science 19141945 | 192 |
Notes on Contributors | 203 |
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This Working-Day World: Women's Lives And Culture(s) In Britain, 1914-1945 Sybil Oldfield Limited preview - 2018 |
This Working-Day World: Women's Lives and Culture(s) in Britain 1914–1945 Sybil Oldfield Limited preview - 2022 |
This Working-Day World: Women's Lives And Culture(s) In Britain, 1914-1945 Sybil Oldfield Limited preview - 2003 |
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