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When the Girls Come Out to Play - Teenage Working-Class Girls' Leisure between the Wars (Hardcover, HPOD)
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When the Girls Come Out to Play - Teenage Working-Class Girls' Leisure between the Wars (Hardcover, HPOD)
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Filling a long-standing gap both in women's history and in the
material history of class culture, this book is a unique and
necessary reassessment of the social and cultural scene during the
inter-war period in England. By combing over the everyday practices
of working-class girls in 1920s and 30s England, including a sharp
focus on Bermondsey south-east London and oral testimony from women
who grew up in the period, Milcoy demonstrates the persistence and
ingenuity with which these teenagers gained access to the
commercial leisure culture of the day, from hairstyles and
fashionable dress to films, music, and dances. She shows how this
access had a startling ripple effect, transforming the way young
women rehearsed and contested their identities so that play, rather
than work, became the primary mechanism for defining subjectivity
and constructing femininity. When the Girls Come Out to Play is a
refreshing and nuanced take on the social and cultural history of
England between the World Wars.
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