This compelling and stimulating book explores the gendered social
history of students in modern Britain. From the privileged youth of
Brideshead Revisited, to the scruffs at 'Scumbag University' in The
Young Ones, representations of the university undergraduate have
been decidedly male. But since the 1970s the proportion of women
students in universities in the UK has continued to rise so that
female undergraduates now outnumber their male counterparts.
Drawing upon wide-ranging original research including documentary
and archival sources, newsfilm, press coverage of student life and
life histories of men and women who graduated before the Second
World War, this text provides rich insights into changes in student
identity and experience over the past century. The book examines :
men's and women's differing expectations of higher education the
sacrifices that families made to send young people to college the
effect of equality legislation demography changing patterns of
marriage and the impact of the 'sexual revolution' on female
students the cultural life of students and the role that gender has
played in shaping them. For students of gender studies, cultural
studies and history, this book will have meaningful impact on their
degree course studies.
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