This Working-Day World - Women''s Lives and Culture(s) in Britain 1914-1945

Originally published in 1994, This Working-Day World is lively collection of essays presenting a social, political and cultural view of British women's lives in the period 1914-45. The volume describes women's activities in many different areas, ranging from the weekly wash to the rescue of child refugees.

List of contents

List of Illustrations, Acknowledgements, Introduction, Section I: Social History, 1. The Weekly Wash, 2. A ‘Trade Union for Married Women’: The Women’s Co-operative Guild 1914–1920, 3. The Women’s Institute Movement – The Acceptable Face of Feminism?, 4. A Woman’s Right to Work? The Role of Women in the Unemployed Movement Between the Wars, 5. The Culture of Femininity in Women’s Teacher Training Colleges 1914–1945, 6. The Diary of Doreen Bates: Single Parenthood and the Civil Service, Section II: Political History, 7. Gendering Patriotism: Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst and World War One, 8. England’s Cassandras in World War One, 9. Women in the British Union of Fascists, 1932–1940, 10. British Feminists and Anti-Fascism in the 1930s, 11. Working with the ‘Kindertransports’, 12. An Austrian Refugee in Wartime Manchester, Section III: Cultural History, 13. ‘A Fair Field and No Favour’: Women Artists Working in Britain Between the Wars, 14. British Women Surrealists – Deviants from Deviance?, 15. Hilda Matheson and the BBC, 1926–1940, 16. ‘Nothing is Impracticable for a Single, Middle-Aged Woman with an Income of her Own’: The Spinster in Women’s Fiction of the 1920s, 17. Chloe, Olivia, Isabel, Letitia, Harriette, Honour, and Many More: Women in Medicine and Biomedical Science 1914–1945, Notes on Contributors, Appendix: Archive Resources for Research on 20th Century British Women, Index.

Summary

Originally published in 1994, This Working-Day World is lively collection of essays presenting a social, political and cultural view of British women’s lives in the period 1914–45. The volume describes women’s activities in many different areas, ranging from the weekly wash to the rescue of child refugees.

Product details

• Authors: Sybil Oldfield, Sybil (University of Sussex Oldfield
• Assisted by: Sybil Oldfield (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2022
• EAN: 9781032301730
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3230173-0
• No. of pages: 210
• Series: Routledge Library Editions: Women and Work
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); European History, First World War, HISTORY / General, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Women, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, British & Irish history, Second World War, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Social and cultural history, Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950, Gender studies: women, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), Gender studies: women and girls, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period)