Louise A. Jackson

Women and Work Culture

Britain c.1850-1950
Herausgeber: Cowman, Krista

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Produktbeschreibung

Women's work has proved to be an important and lively subject of debate for historians. An earlier focus on the pay, conditions and occupational opportunities of predominantly blue-collar working-class women has now been joined by an interest in other social groups (white-collar workers, clerical workers and professionals) as well as in the cultural practices of the work place, reflecting in part the recent 'cultural turn' in historical methodology. Although the term 'culture' is debated and contested, this volume reflects this diversity, addressing a variety of interpretations. The individual essays address such issues as how women have created occupational and professional identities, negotiated masculine working practices (cultural, legal and institutional) and created their own 'feminine' environments. They also examine the integration of paid work with domestic responsibilities, the concept of 'career' for women, and the construction and representation of women's work within the wider cultural landscape.' By focusing on the experiences of British women between c.1850 and 1950, the collection vividly demonstrates that the association of 'work' with paid labour is problematic and that the categories of 'work', 'leisure' and 'consumption' must be viewed as overlapping and inter-linked rather than as separate entities. Furthermore, it highlights the ways in which the concept of gender operated as an organising principle in the construction and negotiation of identities and practices in British society.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juli 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 564g
• ISBN-13: 9780754650508
• ISBN-10: 0754650502
• Artikelnr.: 41252416

Autorenporträt

Dr Krista Cowman, The School of Cultural Studies at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK and Dr Louise A. Jackson, School of History and Classics, The University of Edinburgh, UK

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction: Women's work
a cultural history
Krista Cowman and Louise A. Jackson. Part I What Do We Mean by Work?: Victorian liberal feminism and the 'idea' of work
Joyce Senders Pedersen; Religion and the meanings of work: four cases from among the bright circle of women Quakers
Sandra Stanley Holton; Good housekeeping: professionalising the housewife
1920-50
Judy Giles. Part II Factory Labour: 'Women of true respectability?' Investigating the London work-girl
1880-1900
Emma Liggins; 'It was just a real camaraderie thing': socialising
socialisation and shopfloor culture at the Rowntree factory
York
Emma Robertson. Part III Youth: 'You'd the feeling you wanted to help': young women
employment and the family in inter-war England
Selina Todd; 'Be yourself': Girl and the business of growing up in late 1950s England
Stephanie Spencer. Part IV Science and Medicine: 'Union is strength': the medical women's federation and the politics of professionalism
1917-30
Kaarin Michaelsen; The laboratory: a suitable place for a woman? Gender and laboratory culture around 1900
Claire Jones. Part V Women and War: All quiet on the Woolwich front? Literary and cultural constructions of women munitions workers in the First World War
Angela K. Smith; Eve in khaki: women working with the British military
1915-18
Lucy Noakes; 'Singing while England is burning': women musicians as working music travellers in wartime Britain
1940-43
David Sheridan. Index.