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In Search of the New Woman - Middle-Class Women and Work in Britain 1870-1914 (Hardcover)
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In Search of the New Woman - Middle-Class Women and Work in Britain 1870-1914 (Hardcover)
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The 'New Women' of late nineteenth-century Britain were seen as
defying society's conventions. Studying this phenomenon from its
origins in the 1870s to the outbreak of the Great War, Gillian
Sutherland examines whether women really had the economic freedom
to challenge norms relating to work, political action, love and
marriage, and surveys literary and pictorial representations of the
New Woman. She considers the proportion of middle-class women who
were in employment and the work they did, and compares the
different experiences of women who went to Oxbridge and those who
went to other universities. Juxtaposing them against the period's
rapidly expanding but seldom studied groups of women white-collar
workers, the book pays particular attention to clerks and teachers,
and their political engagement. It also explores the dividing lines
between ladies and women, the significance of respectability and
the interactions of class, status and gender lying behind such
distinctions.
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