Women in Twentieth-Century Britain

Women in Twentieth-Century Britain
Title Women in Twentieth-Century Britain PDF eBook
Author Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska
Publisher Routledge
Pages 393
Release 2014-07-30
Genre History
ISBN 131787692X

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Women's lives have changed dramatically over the course of the twentieth century: reduced fertility and the removal of formal barriers to their participation in education, work and public life are just some examples. At the same time, women are under-represented in many areas, are paid significantly less than men, continue to experience domestic violence and to bear the larger part of the burden in the domestic division of labour. Women in 2000 may have many more choices and opportunities than they had a hundred years ago, but genuine equality between men and women remains elusive. This unique, illustrated history discusses a wide range of topics organised into four parts: the life course - the experience of girlhood, marriage and the ageing process; the nature of women's work, both paid and unpaid; consumption, culture and transgression; and citizenship and the state.

Women in Britain Since 1900

Women in Britain Since 1900
Title Women in Britain Since 1900 PDF eBook
Author Sue Bruley
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
Pages 227
Release 1999
Genre History
ISBN 9780312223755

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This woman-centered history of Britain in the 20th century traces the changing concept of femininity in different chronological time periods. Women are focused on as agents for social change, and each chapter has a section on the women's movement. A separate chapter is devoted to each of the World Wars. After reviewing women's progress over the last hundred years, the book explores the question: Have women gained equality?

A History of Twentieth-Century British Women's Poetry

A History of Twentieth-Century British Women's Poetry
Title A History of Twentieth-Century British Women's Poetry PDF eBook
Author Jane Dowson
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 424
Release 2005-05-19
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9780521819466

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Working For Women?

Working For Women?
Title Working For Women? PDF eBook
Author Celia Briar
Publisher Routledge
Pages 441
Release 2004-01-14
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1135360650

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First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Women in Britain

Women in Britain
Title Women in Britain PDF eBook
Author Janet H. Howarth
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages 280
Release 2018-11-29
Genre History
ISBN 1786724243

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The millennium has sharpened perspectives on the history of women in twentieth-century Britain. Many features of the contemporary gender order date only from the last decades of the century – the expectation of equal opportunities in education and the work-place, sexual autonomy for the individual and tolerance of a variety of family forms. The years dominated by the two World Wars saw real advances towards equal citizenship and legal rights, and a growing sense of the impact on women of 'modernity' in its various forms, including consumerism and the mass media. But values inherited from the Victorians were still reflected in the class hierarchy, the policing of sexuality and the male-breadwinner family. This anthology of original sources, accompanied by a state-of-the-art bibliography, illustrates patterns of continuity and change in women's experience and their place in national life. An introductory survey provides an accessible overview and analysis of controversial issues, such as the relationship between 'first', 'second' and 'third' wave feminism.

Students in Twentieth-Century Britain and Ireland

Students in Twentieth-Century Britain and Ireland
Title Students in Twentieth-Century Britain and Ireland PDF eBook
Author Jodi Burkett
Publisher Springer
Pages 331
Release 2017-09-22
Genre History
ISBN 3319582410

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This book explores the experiences and activities of students across the twentieth century and throughout the United Kingdom and Ireland. The daily experiences of students, their involvement in local communities, national political organisations and widespread cultural changes, are the main focus of this ground-breaking book. It takes students themselves as the subject of inquiry, exploring the fundamental importance of student activities within wider social and political changes and also how some of the key changes across the twentieth century have shaped and changed the make-up, experiences, and lives of students. This book charts the experiences of students throughout a period of unprecedented change as being a student in Britain and Ireland has gone from the endeavour of a small number of elite, mainly wealthy white men, to an important phase of life undertaken by the majority of young people.

Women and War in the Twentieth Century

Women and War in the Twentieth Century
Title Women and War in the Twentieth Century PDF eBook
Author Nicole A. Dombrowski
Publisher Routledge
Pages 396
Release 2004-11-23
Genre History
ISBN 1135872848

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First published in 2005. This volume documents women's 20th century wartime experiences from World War I through the recent conflicts in Bosnia. The articles cross national boundaries including France, China, Peru, Guatemala, Germany, Bosnia, the U.S. and Great Britain.. The contributors of these original essays trace the evolution of women's roles as victims of war while also showing how they have been increasingly incorporated into battle as actors and perpetrators. These comparative studies analyze war's disruptions of daily life, its effects on children, rape as a war crime, access to equal opportunity, and women's resistance to violence.