In Search of the New Woman: Middle-Class Women and Work in Britain 1870-1914

ISBN-13: 9781107467347 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 199 str.

Gillian Sutherland

Opis

A study of the 'New Woman' phenomenon, examining whether British women really achieved the economic independence to challenge social conventions.

Recenzje

'Sutherland's innovative approach to middle- and lower-middle-class women's expanding professional prospects and shifting social and political outlooks offers a number of intriguing lines of inquiry. She explores records from technical schools, tracing the educational infrastructure that helped sustain socially aspiring women's mass entrance into clerical employment. Sutherland also devotes substantial attention to the complex expansion of state education and the generally positive opportunities this afforded female teachers.' Katie Hindmarch-Watson, Journal of Modern History

Spis treści

1. 'A sort of bogey whom no-one has ever seen'? The nature of the search; 2. 'All that she sees before her … is teaching': formal schooling and its opportunities; 3. 'The exercise of what may be termed her maternal faculties': public service and 'caring' occupations; 4. 'Impossible for a lady to remain a lady': art, literature and the theatre; 5. 'The real social divide existed between those who … dirtied hands and face and those who did not': women white collar workers (I); 6. 'A beggarly makeshift, but for me it was wealth beyond price': women white collar workers (II); 7. Ladies and women; 8. Some conclusions: degrees of freedom; Sources and select bibliography.