Gender, Work and Education in Britain in the 1950s

ISBN-13: 9781403938169 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 253 str.

Stephanie Spencer

Opis

Improvements in education and economic expansion in the 1950s ensured a range of school-leaving employment opportunities. Yet girls' full acceptance as adult women was still confirmed by marriage and motherhood rather than employment. This book examines the gendered nature of 'career'. Using both written sources and oral history it enters the theoretical debate over the significance of gender by considering the relationship between individual 'women' and the dominant representation of 'Woman'.

Recenzje

A timely intervention into the historiography of the post-war world...Full of rich and fascinating material. - Jane Martin, Gender and Education

Spis treści

Preface Abbreviations PART 1: INTRODUCTION: THE FORGOTTEN GENERATION PART 2: WOMEN IN THE WELFARE STATE The Welfare State and Women's History The Beveridge Report Women's Organisations' Response to the Beveridge Report Mass Observation PART 3: FORMAL EDUCATION AND CAREER CHOICE 1950s Sociological and Educational Research The Headmistresses' Associations The Crowther Report PART 4: ADVICE MANUALS AND WOMEN'S EMPLOYMENT 1950s Sociological Literature Youth Employment Service and Advice Manuals Women's Employment PART 5: THE CAREER NOVELS List of Career Novels for Girls PART 6: GIRL TO WOMAN Belonging, The Female Club The Woman You Want t To Be A Woman's Work PART 7: MY OWN FRONT DOOR. REMEMBERING THE 1950s. The Interview Process Family and School Work and Marriage Constructing the Self. Looking back Conclusion Statistical Appendix Bibliography

O autorze

STEPHANIE SPENCER is Lecturer in the School of Education, University College Winchester, UK. Like many women of her generation she has an eclectic career profile. During a ten year 'gap' between school and university she taught at the Cordon Bleu School in London and ran a vegetarian restaurant. Her first degree was from the Open University, after which she went into academia full time.