Author: Ruth AdamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Feminism
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
A Woman's Place, 1910-1975
Author: Ruth AdamA Woman's Place
Author: Woman's Place.
Author: British Sources of Information
Author: P. JacksonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135794936
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 772
Book Description
This comprehensive and versatile reference source will be a most important tool for anyone wishing to seek out information on virtually any aspect of British affairs, life and culture. The resources of a detailed bibliography, directory and journals listing are combined in this single volume, forming a unique guide to a multitude of diverse topics - British politics, government, society, literature, thought, arts, economics, history and geography. Academic subjects as taught in British colleges and universities are covered, with extensive reading lists of books and journals and sources of information for each discipline, making this an invaluable manual.
Bringing Up War-Babies
Author: Amanda JonesPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351387065
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
The figure of the wartime child in the mid-twentieth century unsettles and disturbs. This book employs a range of material – biographical, literary and historical – to chart some of the surprising and unanticipated crossovers between women’s writing and early psychoanalysis in the years of the Second World War and the decades before and after. This volume includes examples of children’s adventure fiction, as well as works written for adult audiences and important and previously unrecognized similarities are noted. The war was a disruptive influence in the lives of all who lived through it. Although active self-censorship is observed in the behaviour and attitudes of adults at this time, this book demonstrates how fictional children are able to articulate feelings such as anxiety and fear that adults were under pressure to conceal or to repress and at times, the figure of the wartime child becomes a surrogate for the writer herself or her suppressed fears and anxiety. When peace returned, this study finds women writers quick to identify and communicate a discomfiting new ambivalence between parents and children.
Stepping Stones to Women's Liberty
Author: Les GarnerPublisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838632239
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
This book examines the feminism of an early twentieth-century movement that involved thousands of women--the struggle for the vote in England. It is an attempt to discover some of the main ideas developed within the major suffragist organizations.
The Women's Suffrage Movement
Author: Elizabeth CrawfordPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135434026
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 800
Book Description
This widely acclaimed book has been described by History Today as a 'landmark in the study of the women's movement'. It is the only comprehensive reference work to bring together in one volume the wealth of information available on the women's movement. Drawing on national and local archival sources, the book contains over 400 biographical entries and more than 800 entries on societies in England, Scotland and Wales. Easily accessible and rigorously cross-referenced, this invaluable resource covers not only the political developments of the campaign but provides insight into its cultural context, listing novels, plays and films.
The Domestication of Women
Author: Barbara RogersPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134954700
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
First Published in 1981. The Domestication of Women is a feminist critique of international development agencies and programs.
Women's Poetry of the First World War
Author: Nosheen KhanPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 9780813116778
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Catherine Cookson Country
Author: Julie Anne TaddeoPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351953176
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Britain's most widely read author of the late twentieth century, Catherine Cookson published more than 100 books, including The Fifteen Streets, The Black Velvet Gown, and Katie Mulhollond. Set in England's industrial northeast, her novels depict the social, economic, and emotional hardships of that area. In the first essay collection devoted to Cookson, the contributors examine what Cookson's memoirs and historical fiction mean to readers, including how her fans contribute to her position in the cultural imaginary; constructions of gender, class, and English and Irish identity in her work; the importance of place in her novels; Cookson's place in the heritage industry; and television adaptations of Cookson's works. Cookson's work tackled topics that were still taboo in the early post-World War II era, such as domestic abuse, rape, and incest. This collection places Cookson in historical context and shows how skillful she was at pushing generic boundaries.