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Zusatztext this is a marvellous book â deftly researched and adroitly argued â that offers a new image of the relationship between domestic service and British culture in the twentieth century. It shows the richness and depth that cultural history can achieve if written with an eye to emotional experience as well as popular representation. Its particular triumph lies in the way that it successfully thinks through the relationship between experience and culture â showing the connections between the real and imagined worlds â and how these are inextricably interlinked. Informationen zum Autor Lucy Delap is a social and cultural historian with research interests in feminism, class, religion, and gender. Her book The Feminist Avant-Garde: Transatlantic Encounters of the early twentieth century was published in 2007 and won the 2008 Women's History Network Prize. She co-edited The Politics of Domestic Authority in Britain since 1800 (2009), contributed to Feminist Media History (2010), and has published widely on British and American feminism. She was educated in London, Swaziland and Cambridge, and taught at the University of Cambridge until moving to King's College London in 2013. Klappentext Knowing Their Place offers a fascinating look at the relationships of antagonism and friendship, disgust and desire, that marked domestic service in twentieth century Britain. Zusammenfassung Knowing Their Place offers a fascinating look at the relationships of antagonism and friendship, disgust and desire, that marked domestic service in twentieth century Britain. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: Twentieth Century Servants 2: Servant-Keepers and the Management of Servants 3: 'Doing for Oneself': the Evolving Servantless Home 4: Kitchen-Sink Laughter: Domestic Service Humour 5: 'The Good, the Bad, and the Spicy': Servants in Pornography and Erotica 6: Heritage Nostalgia: Domestic Service Remembered and Performed Conclusion Bibliography ...
