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Informationen zum Autor Sandra Trudgen Dawson is the Executive Administrator of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians. She received a Ph.D. in History and Feminist Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 2007. Her first book, 'Holiday Camps in twentieth-century Britain: Packaging Pleasure', was published by Manchester University Press in 2011 as part of their Popular Culture Series. Dawson co-edited, with Eileen Boris and Barbara Molony, 'Engendering Transnational Transgressions: The Intimate to the Global' (Routledge, 2020) and co-edited, with Erika Rappaport and Mark J. Crowley, 'Consuming Behaviours: Identity, Politics and Pleasure in twentieth-century Britain' (Bloomsbury Academic, 2015) and edited, with Mark J. Crowley, 'Home Fronts: Britain and the Empire at War, 1939-45' (Boydell, 2017). Her current project, 'Midwives and Mothers: Reproductive Labours in Interwar and Wartime Britain', will be published by Lexington Books. Klappentext This book tells the fascinating story of the Butlin and Warner holiday camp chains that emerged in the 1930s. The camps became a cultural phenomenon deeply enmeshed in the social and cultural history of twentieth century Britain. 'This is an excellent book that examines the history of holiday camps and paid holidays.' Brad Beaven, English Historical Review, vol 128, no 530, February 2013 -- . Zusammenfassung This book tells the fascinating story of the Butlin and Warner holiday camp chains that emerged in the 1930s. The camps became a cultural phenomenon deeply enmeshed in the social and cultural history of twentieth century Britain. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Creating a culture for leisure1. Imagining consumers: Working-class families and paid holidays2. Building the luxury holiday camp industry3. Advertising holiday camp culture and inventing social harmony4. War and the business of leisure5. The 'People's Peace': Postwar pleasure and austerity6. Planned pleasure, labour shortages and consumer resistanceEpilogueSelect BibliographyIndex...
