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Author | : Wanda F. Neff |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2013-11-05 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 113661804X |
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This book was first published in 1929. The working woman was not, a Victorian institution. The word spinster disproves any upstart origin for the sisterhood of toil. Nor was she as a literary figure the discovery of Victorian witers in search of fresh material. Chaucer included unmemorable working women and Charlotte Bronte in 'Shirley' had Caroline Helstone a reflection that spinning 'kept her servants up very late'. It seems that the Victorians see the women worker as an object of oity, portrated in early nineteenth century as a victim of long hours, injustice and unfavourable conditions. This volume looks at the working woman in British industries and professions from 1832 to1850.
Author | : Arlene Young |
Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2019-05-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0773558489 |
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The late Victorian period brought a radical change in cultural attitudes toward middle-class women and work. Anxiety over the growing disproportion between women and men in the population, combined with an awakening desire among young women for personal and financial freedom, led progressive thinkers to advocate for increased employment opportunities. The major stumbling block was the persistent conviction that middle-class women - "ladies" - could not work without relinquishing their social status. Through media reports, public lectures, and fictional portrayals of working women, From Spinster to Career Woman traces advocates' efforts to alter cultural perceptions of women, work, class, and the ideals of womanhood. Focusing on the archetypal figures of the hospital nurse and the typewriter, Arlene Young analyzes the strategies used to transform a job perceived as menial into a respected profession and to represent office work as progressive employment for educated women. This book goes beyond a standard examination of historical, social, and political realities, delving into the intense human elements of a cultural shift and the hopes and fears of young women seeking independence. Providing new insights into the Victorian period, From Spinster to Career Woman captures the voices of ordinary women caught up in the frustrations and excitements of a new era.
Author | : Florence s. Boos |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2017-12-02 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3319642154 |
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This volume is the first to identify a significant body of life narratives by working-class women and to demonstrate their inherent literary significance. Placing each memoir within its generic, historical, and biographical context, this book traces the shifts in such writings over time, examines the circumstances which enabled working-class women authors to publish their life stories, and places these memoirs within a wider autobiographical tradition. Additionally, Memoirs of Victorian Working-Class Women enables readers to appreciate the clear-sightedness, directness, and poignancy of these works.
Author | : Tracy C. Davis |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 361 |
Release | : 2002-03-11 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1134934467 |
Download Actresses as Working Women Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Using historical evidence as well as personal accounts, Tracy C. Davis examines the reality of conditions for `ordinary' actresses, their working environments, employment patterns and the reasons why acting continued to be such a popular, though insecure, profession. Firmly grounded in Marxist and feminist theory she looks at representations of women on stage, and the meanings associated with and generated by them.
Author | : Lydia Murdoch |
Publisher | : Greenwood |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0313384983 |
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Explores the complexities of the lived experiences of Victorian women in the home, the workplace, and the empire as well as the ideals of womanhood and femininity that developed during the 19th century. Contrary to popular misconception, many Victorian women performed manual labor for wages directly alongside men, had political voice before women's suffrage, and otherwise contributed significantly to society outside of the domestic sphere. Daily Life of Victorian Women documents the varied realities of the lives of Victorian women; provides in-depth comparative analysis of the experiences of women from all classes, especially the working class; and addresses changes in their lives and society over time. The book covers key social, intellectual, and geographical aspects of women's lives, with main chapters on gender and ideals of womanhood, the state, religion, home and family, the body, childhood and youth, paid labor and professional work, urban life, and imperialism.
Author | : Wanda Fraiken Neff |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : English fiction |
ISBN | : |
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Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Teenage girls |
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Author | : Florence S. Boos |
Publisher | : Broadview Press |
Total Pages | : 365 |
Release | : 2008-06-12 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 177048275X |
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Though working-class women in the nineteenth century included many accomplished and prolific poets, their work has often been neglected by critics and readers in favour of comparable work by men. Questioning the assumption that few poems by working-class women had survived, Florence Boos set out to discover supposedly lost works in libraries, private collections, and archives. Her years of research resulted in this anthology. Working-Class Women Poets in Victorian Britain features poetry from a variety of women, including an itinerant weaver, a rural midwife, a factory worker protesting industrialization, and a blind Scottish poet who wrote in both the Scots dialect and English. In addition to biographical information and contemporary reviews of the poets’ work, the anthology also includes several photographs of the poets, their environment, and the journals in which their poems appeared.
Author | : Lynn Mae Alexander |
Publisher | : Ohio University Press |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Art and literature |
ISBN | : 0821414933 |
Download Women, Work, and Representation Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In Victorian England, virtually all women were taught to sew, but this essentially domestic virtue took on a different aspect for the professional seamstress of the day. This study considers the way this powerful image of working-class suffering was used by social reformers in art and literature.
Author | : Judith R. Walkowitz |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 1982-10-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521270649 |
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A study of alliances between prostitutes and femminists and their clashes with medical authorities and police.