Author : Sue Bruley
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 36,42 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 9780312223755
This woman-centered history of Britain in the 20th century traces the changing concept of femininity in different chronological time periods. Women are focused on as agents for social change, and each chapter has a section on the women's movement. A separate chapter is devoted to each of the World Wars. After reviewing women's progress over the last hundred years, the book explores the question: Have women gained equality?
Author : Maggie Andrews
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 10,77 MB
Release : 2014-04-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1135106908
The media have played a significant role in the contested and changing social position of women in Britain since the 1900s. They have facilitated feminism by both providing discourses and images from which women can construct their identities, and offering spaces where hegemonic ideas of femininity can be reworked. This volume is intended to provide an overview of work on Broadcasting, Film and Print Media from 1900, while appealing to scholars of History and Media, Film and Cultural Studies. This edited collection features tightly focused and historically contextualised case studies which showcase current research on women and media in Britain since the 1900s. The case studies explore media directed at a particularly female audience such as Woman’s Hour, and magazines such as Vogue, Woman and Marie Claire. Women who work in the media, issues of production, and regulation are discussed alongside the representation of women across a broad range of media from early 20th-century motorcycling magazines, Page 3 and regional television news.
Author : Joanne Shattock
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 44,9 MB
Release : 2001-08-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521659574
These new essays by leading scholars explore nineteenth-century women's writing across a spectrum of genres. The book's focus is on women's role in and access to literary culture in the broadest sense, as consumers and interpreters as well as practitioners of that culture. Individual chapters consider women as journalists, editors, translators, scholars, actresses, playwrights, autobiographers, biographers, writers for children and religious writers as well as novelists and poets. A unique chronology offers a woman-centered perspective on literary and historical events and there is a guide to further reading.
Author : Sheila Rowbotham
Publisher : Penguin Paperbacks
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,64 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 9780140232820
Far more than a historical subcategory, women have been driving forces behind world war politics, global migration, maternal welfare, sexual revolution, and modern labor movements. In A Century of Women, renowned historian Sheila Rowbotham charts, decade by decade, the changes in the lives of women and the ways they themselves have uniquely shaped history since 1900. From women who marched for the vote, stood on picket lines, or refused to be segregated, to politicians, poets, and film stars, their stories are told in rich detail.Throughout the book are entertaining essays on body and image, popular fiction, lesbian culture, the automobile, Barbie dolls, and more; a final section gathers biographies of four hundred notable women. Thoroughly engrossing and unrivaled in scope, A Century of Women provides a wealth of information on the rich, complex, and tumultuous lives of the women who have left an indelible mark on our century.
Author : Gerry Holloway
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 39,28 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780415259118
Examining over 150 years of women's employment history, this essential student resource considers how class, age, marital status, race and wider economic and political issues have affected women's opportunities and status in the workplace.
Author : Kathryn Gleadle
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 20,69 MB
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1403937540
This highly original synthesis is a clear and stimulating assessment of nineteenth-century British women. It aims to provide students with an in-depth understanding of the key historiographical debates and issues, placing particular emphasis upon recent, revisionist research. The book highlights not merely the ideologies and economic circumstances which shaped women's lives, but highlights the sheer diversity of women's own experiences and identities. In so doing, it presents a positive but nuanced interpretation of women's roles within their own families and communities, as well as stressing women's enormous contribution to the making of contemporary British culture and society.
Author : Jane E. Lewis
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 26,67 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Author : Annette Mayer
Publisher : Hodder Education
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 19,23 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 9780340780749
During the 20th century, women experienced significant changes in their political, social and economic status within British society. This volume offers a detailed examination of the forces that influenced those developments. It identifies the range of factors, which helped to shift opinions and attitudes, and assisted in the continuing emancipation of women. Particular attention is given to the impact on women's lives of two World Wars, political, social, economic and educational reforms, technological change and evolving feminist ideas. The role played by key individuals is also examined. Finally, the book provides an overview of the progress achieved by women and questions the extent to which they have secured equality with men.
Author : Sue Morgan
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 15,91 MB
Release : 2002-08-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780333993071
This collection of new essays examines the pervasive influence of religion upon the lives and strategies of late eighteenth and nineteenth century women activists. The book discusses a wide range of issues from female education to lesbian passion, and the authors demonstrate through detailed case-studies, women's skilful negotiation of the boundaries between personal religious beliefs, moral attitudes and social action.
Author : Judy Giles
Publisher :
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,6 MB
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN :
This title explores the meanings and experience of home and private life for women who grew up in England before 1950. It considers the extent to which class, surburbanization and historical moment as well as gender constructed women's understanding of domesticity, and discusses the part played by conceptions of home and private life in the shaping of identities. Oral narratives, fiction, autobiography and diaries are used in conjunction with psychoanalytic, linguistic and historical explanations of women's lives to map a psychological as well as a social history of women's relationship to the home in the early part of the 20th century.
