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This book draws on recent deconstructions around the idea of
'femininity' as a social, racial and class construct and explores
the diversity of spaces that may be defined as educational that
range from institutional contexts to family, to professional
outlooks, to racial identity, to defining community and religious
groupings. It explores how notions of femininity change across time
and place, and within individual lives. Such changes take place at
the interface of external forces and individual agency. The
application of the notion of 'femininity' that assumes a consistent
definition of the term is interrogated by the authors, leading to a
discussion of the rich possibilities for new directions in research
into women's lives across time, place, and individual life
histories.
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.
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.
This book examines school and college fiction for girls in Britain
and the United States, written in the first half of the twentieth
century, to explore the formation and ideologies of feminine
identity. Nancy G. Rosoff and Stephanie Spencer develop a
transnational framework that recognises how both constructed and
essential femininities transcend national boundaries. The book
discusses the significance and performance of female friendship
across time and place, which is central to the development of the
genre, and how it functioned as an important means of informal
education. Stories by Jessie Graham Flower, Pauline Lester, Alice
Ross Colver, Elinor Brent-Dyer, and Dorita Fairlie Bruce are set
within their historical context and then used to explore aspects of
sociability, authority, responsibility, domesticity, and
possibility. The distinctiveness of this book stems from the
historical analysis of these sources, which have so far primarily
been treated by literary scholars within their national context.
Winner of the History of Education Society Anne Bloomfield Prize
for the best book on history of education published in English
2017-19
Focusing on one broadly representative figure, Francis Bedford,
this study emphasizes how photographs operated to form and transmit
cultural ideas and values. The first writing on Bedford since the
1970s, the book examines the work of a man who was one of Victorian
England's premier landscape photographers, and also a successful
photographic entrepreneur. His fusion of art and commerce
illuminates classifications of each field, exemplifies the tensions
between them, and demonstrates a reconciliation of two often
conflicting sets of issues. This study fills an informational gap,
and analyzes the definitions, expectations, and positioning of
photography in its seminal decades. The multiple interpretative
possibilities arising from Bedford's photographs in particular
elucidate the range of discussions and complexity of ideas about
culture and nature, the individual and the nation, home and abroad,
and the past and the present engaging the mid-Victorian public.
Major themes of the book include the intersection of nature and
culture, the related practice of nineteenth-century tourism,
attitudes toward historical identity, and the formation of a
national identity in England and Wales, c. 1856-94.
Focusing on one broadly representative figure, Francis Bedford,
this study emphasizes how photographs operated to form and transmit
cultural ideas and values. The first writing on Bedford since the
1970s, the book examines the work of a man who was one of Victorian
England's premier landscape photographers, and also a successful
photographic entrepreneur. His fusion of art and commerce
illuminates classifications of each field, exemplifies the tensions
between them, and demonstrates a reconciliation of two often
conflicting sets of issues. This study fills an informational gap,
and analyzes the definitions, expectations, and positioning of
photography in its seminal decades. The multiple interpretative
possibilities arising from Bedford's photographs in particular
elucidate the range of discussions and complexity of ideas about
culture and nature, the individual and the nation, home and abroad,
and the past and the present engaging the mid-Victorian public.
Major themes of the book include the intersection of nature and
culture, the related practice of nineteenth-century tourism,
attitudes toward historical identity, and the formation of a
national identity in England and Wales, c. 1856-94.
This book draws on recent deconstructions around the idea of
'femininity' as a social, racial and class construct and explores
the diversity of spaces that may be defined as educational that
range from institutional contexts to family, to professional
outlooks, to racial identity, to defining community and religious
groupings. It explores how notions of femininity change across time
and place, and within individual lives. Such changes take place at
the interface of external forces and individual agency. The
application of the notion of 'femininity' that assumes a consistent
definition of the term is interrogated by the authors, leading to a
discussion of the rich possibilities for new directions in research
into women's lives across time, place, and individual life
histories.
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