Women and a Changing Civilisation
Author | : Winifred Holtby |
Publisher | : London, Lane |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1934 |
Genre | : Women |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Winifred Holtby |
Publisher | : London, Lane |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1934 |
Genre | : Women |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Winifred Holtby |
Publisher | : Academy Chicago Pub |
Total Pages | : 213 |
Release | : 1935 |
Genre | : Women |
ISBN | : 9780915864270 |
Author | : Winifred Holtby |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 213 |
Release | : 1935 |
Genre | : Women |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Emma Sterry |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 2017-06-22 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3319408291 |
This book situates the single woman within the evolving landscape of modernity, examining how she negotiated rural and urban worlds, explored domestic and bohemian roles, and traversed public and private spheres. In the modern era, the single woman was both celebrated and derided for refusing to conform to societal expectations regarding femininity and sexuality. The different versions of single women presented in cultural narratives of this period—including the old maid, odd woman, New Woman, spinster, and flapper—were all sexually suspicious. The single woman, however, was really an amorphous figure who defied straightforward categorization. Emma Sterry explores depictions of such single women in transatlantic women’s fiction of the 1920s to 1940s. Including a diverse selection of renowned and forgotten writers, such as Djuna Barnes, Rosamond Lehmann, Ngaio Marsh, and Eliot Bliss, this book argues that the single woman embodies the tensions between tradition and progress in both middlebrow and modernist literary culture.
Author | : Kate Murphy |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2016-04-28 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1137491736 |
Behind the Wireless tells the story of women at the BBC in the 1920s and 30s. Broadcasting was brand new in Britain and the BBC developed without many of the overt discriminatory practices commonplace at the time. Women were employed at all levels, except the very top, for instance as secretaries, documentary makers, advertising representatives, and librarians. Three women held Director level posts, Hilda Matheson (Director of Talks), Mary Somerville (Director of School Broadcasting), and Isa Benzie (Foreign Director). Women also produced the programmes aimed at female listeners and brought women broadcasters to the microphone. There was an ethos of equality and the chance to rise through the ranks from accounts clerk to accompanist. But lurking behind the façade of modernity were hidden inequalities in recruitment, pay, and promotion and in 1932 a marriage bar was introduced. Kate Murphy examines how and why the interwar BBC created new opportunities for women.
Author | : Mary Louise Roberts |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2009-02-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0226721272 |
In the raucous decade following World War I, newly blurred boundaries between male and female created fears among the French that theirs was becoming a civilization without sexes. This new gender confusion became a central metaphor for the War's impact on French culture and led to a marked increase in public debate concerning female identity and woman's proper role. Mary Louise Roberts examines how in these debates French society came to grips with the catastrophic horrors of the Great War. In sources as diverse as parliamentary records, newspaper articles, novels, medical texts, writings on sexology, and vocational literature, Roberts discovers a central question: how to come to terms with rapid economic, social, and cultural change and articulate a new order of social relationships. She examines the role of French trauma concerning the War in legislative efforts to ban propaganda for abortion and contraception, and explains anxieties about the decline of maternity by a crisis in gender relations that linked soldiery, virility, and paternity. Through these debates, Roberts locates the seeds of actual change. She shows how the willingness to entertain, or simply the need to condemn, nontraditional gender roles created an indecisiveness over female identity that ultimately subverted even the most conservative efforts to return to traditional gender roles and irrevocably altered the social organization of gender in postwar France.
Author | : Eireann Marshall |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2004-07-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1134391900 |
Written by an international range of renowned academics, this volume explores how women in antiquity influenced aspects of culture normally though of as male. Looking at politics, economics, science, law and the arts, the contributors examine examples from around the ancient world asking how far traditional definitions of culture describe male spheres of activity, and examining to what extent these spheres were actually created and perpetuated by women. Women’s Influence of Classical Civilization provides students with a valuable wider perspective on the roles and influence of women in the societies of the Greek and Roman worlds.
Author | : Lisa Regan |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2009-12-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1443818240 |
Winifred Holtby, “A Woman In Her Time”: Critical Essays brings together for the first time a range of scholarly perspectives on one of Britain’s best-loved regional authors. Remembered for her vivid portrayal of 1930s rural Yorkshire in her final novel, South Riding (1936) and for her friendship with Vera Brittain, Winifred Holtby (1898-1935) has become a key figure for those interested in British literature, politics, and culture between the wars. Epitomising the professional independence and political passion which we have come to associate with the newly emancipated women of her era, Holtby’s was a life devoted to myriad causes and directed to the pressing issues of her day. With fresh perspectives on Holtby’s better known novels alongside new critical forays into her short stories, drama, journalism, and historical writing, Winifred Holtby, “A Woman In Her Time” sheds new light on a woman who not only spoke out in support of feminism, peace, and racial equality at a time when fascism and war loomed, but who also shared with us her views on a wide spectrum of topical concerns from Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, H. G. Wells, psychology, spinsters, mothers, and the B.B.C., to her delight in clothes, films, and village gossip.
Author | : Tim Allender |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2020-12-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 3030542335 |
This book draws on recent deconstructions around the idea of ‘femininity’ as a social, racial and class construct and explores the diversity of spaces that may be defined as educational that range from institutional contexts to family, to professional outlooks, to racial identity, to defining community and religious groupings. It explores how notions of femininity change across time and place, and within individual lives. Such changes take place at the interface of external forces and individual agency. The application of the notion of ‘femininity’ that assumes a consistent definition of the term is interrogated by the authors, leading to a discussion of the rich possibilities for new directions in research into women’s lives across time, place, and individual life histories.
Author | : Mallādi Subbamma |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Marriage |
ISBN | : |
Compilation of author's articles and addresses presented at seminars and conferences chiefly on emancipation of Indian women.