Overview
Could women be feminist without feminism? Could they foster feminist activism without a movement or an ideology? Could they recraft ways of being female without a plan? Feminist Lives adopts a woman-centred approach to explore these questions and to understand how British women charted a new way of being female in the three decades before the Women's Liberation Movement. By focusing on the 'transition' generation of women who were born in the long 1940s and who grew to maturity in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s, the book demonstrates that it was they who developed the aspirational model of womanhood that then emerged after 1970 as the norm amongst women in the global north.In doing so, Feminist Lives seeks to fill 'the feminist history gap', countering a narrative that has for too long neglected this generation of women as fusty and failing, and as just not feminist enough. Using women's voices as the book's evidential and emotional core as they describe themselves, their relationships, their feelings and actions, this volume analyses the modes by which women constructed a modern self, built upon new ways of living, feeling, and being.
Full Product Details
Author: Prof Lynn Abrams (Professor of Modern History, Professor of Modern History, University of Glasgow)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 16.00cm
, Height: 2.00cm
, Length: 24.00cm
Weight: 0.542kg
ISBN: 9780192896995
ISBN 10: 0192896997
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 05 October 2023
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Grounded in an impressive base of research that is strong on oral history, this book focuses on the era when women had not yet developed a feminist ideology, yet took advantage of expanded educational opportunities and state provisioning in the postwar years to fashion new lives. Recommended. * Choice * This book is a reminder of the impressive work that Abrams' has carried out over the past two decades to forge a framework for understanding how people, especially women, talk about their lives. Her body of evidence is rich for its impressive insight into the personal lives of white women in Britain, offering glimpses into their varied histories and subjectivities. * Jessica White, Family & Community History *
Author Information
Lynn Abrams is Chair of Modern History at the University of Glasgow where she works on modern women's and gender history. She has published extensively on British and European social history including The Making of Modern Woman: Europe 1789-1918 (2002), Myth and Materiality in a Women's World: Shetland 1800 to the Present (2005), and Oral History Theory (2016).
