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Women, Identity and Private Life in Britain, 1900–50

By Judy Giles (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan US
Year
1995
ISBN
978-0-333-64083-8, 978-1-349-23935-1
DOI
10.1007/978-1-349-23935-1
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
20 MB (20486550 bytes)
Series
Women’s Studies at York/Macmillan Series
Edition
1
Pages
VIII, 189\197
Time added
2016-03-14 21:35:01
general; Gender Studies; Personality and Social PsSociology

Description

Women, Identity and Private Life in Britain, 1900-50, explores the meanings and experience of home and private life for women who grew up in England before 1950. It considers the extent to which class, suburbanisation and historical moment as well as gender constructed women's understanding of domesticity, and discusses the part played by conceptions of home and private life in the shaping of identities. Oral narratives, fiction, autobiography and diaries are used in conjunction with psychoanalytic, linguistic and historical explanations of women's lives to map a psychological as well as a social history of women's relationship to the home in the early part of this century.

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