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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Penny Tinkler (University of Manchester, UK) , Stephanie Spencer (University of Winchester, UK) , Claire Langhamer (University of Sussex, UK)Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.453kg ISBN: 9781138104617ISBN 10: 1138104612 Pages: 178 Publication Date: 08 August 2017 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education , Undergraduate Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction: Revisioning the History of Girls and Women in Britain in the Long 1950s 1. Teetering on the Edge: portraits of innocence, risk and young female sexualities in 1950s’ and 1960s’ British cinema 2. ‘Nothing gets her goat!’ The Farmer’s Wife and the Duality of Rural Femininity in the Young Farmers’ Club Movement in 1950s Britain 3. Women, Marriage and Paid Work in Post-war Britain 4. Taking Work Home: the private secretary and domestic identities in the long 1950s 5. Feelings, Women and Work in the Long 1950s 6. Cosmopolitan Sociability in the British and International Federations of University Women, 1945–1960 7. Special Relationships: mixed-race couples in post-war Britain and the United States 8. Belonging and ‘Unbelonging’: Jewish refugee and survivor women in 1950s Britain 9. What Do Women Want? Housewives’ Associations, Activism and Changing Representations of Women in the 1950sReviewsAuthor InformationPenny Tinkler is Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester, UK. Her publications include Constructing Girlhood (1995), Smoke Signals: Women, Smoking and Visual Culture (2006) and Using Photographs in Social and Historical Research (2013). She currently holds an ESRC award: ‘Transitions and Mobilities: Girls growing up in Britain 1954-76 and the implications for later-life experience and identity’. Stephanie Spencer is Professor of the History of Women’s Education at the University of Winchester, UK. Her publications include Gender, Work and Education in Britain in the 1950s (2005), and Alumni Voices: The Changing Experience of Higher Education (2015). She is currently researching British and American school stories for girls. Claire Langhamer is Professor of Modern British History at the University of Sussex, UK. Her publications include Women’s Leisure in England, 1920–1960 (2000) and The English in Love: The Intimate Story of an Emotional Revolution (2013). She is currently researching feelings at work in post-war Britain. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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