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Women in Fifties Britain - A New Look (Paperback)
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Contented housewives, glamorous women, jive-mad teenagers - all are
common figures in popular perceptions of 1950s Britain. But what
more did it mean to be a girl or woman in the fifties? And what are
the implications of this history for understanding post-war
Britain? Women in Fifties Britain explores the lived experience of
girls and women, and the way in which their story has been told.
Crossing boundaries - disciplinary, conceptual and thematic - and
drawing creatively on new and established sources, it extends and
enriches the terrain of women's history. Diverse groups of women
come into view, including farmer's wives, university-educated
women, activist housewives, working mothers, Jewish refugees, girls
'at risk' and private secretaries. Revealing that their private,
public and professional lives were central to reshaping society,
the collection engages with the legacy of World War II, and with
questions about the distinctiveness of the 1950s. Embracing
emotion, labour, gender, class, race, sociability, sexuality and
much more, the authors offer penetrating exploration of established
and new categories of historical analysis. Placing the politics of
gender at the heart of Britain's reconstruction, this engaging and
important collection re-visions 1950s Britain and the women that
made it. This book was originally published as a special issue of
Women's History Review.
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