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In this outstanding book, Eve Worth revisions the history of class, gender and the British welfare state by centring the lives of women born in the long 1940s. Writing with exceptional lucidity and authority, Worth succeeds brilliantly in recasting existing narratives of social and political change in contemporary Britain. * Helen McCarthy, Reader in Modern and Contemporary British History, University of Cambridge, UK. *

As the welfare state increasingly comes under pressure in the twenty-first century, this book reminds us of its critical place in post-war British life, not only as an ideology translated into social provision but also as an aid to identity formation, particularly amongst women who arguably had the most to benefit from it. * Contemporary British History * In this outstanding book, Eve Worth revisions the history of class, gender and the British welfare state by centring the lives of women born in the long 1940s. Writing with exceptional lucidity and authority, Worth succeeds brilliantly in recasting existing narratives of social and political change in contemporary Britain. * Helen McCarthy, Reader in Modern and Contemporary British History, University of Cambridge, UK. *

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Eve Worth is Junior Research Fellow in History, St Hilda’s College, University of Oxford, UK.

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