This Working-day World: Women's Lives And Culture(s) In Britain, 1914-1945 (gender And Society : Feminist Perspectives On The Past And Present)

This is a collection of essays on aspects of British women's lives in the period 1914-1945. Concentrating on women's activities in many different areas ranging from teacher training colleges to women's institutes; the BBC artiste's group to political militancy. "This Working Day World" presents a women's cultural history that is a kaleidoscope of sub- cultures, covering art, fiction, medicine, political racialism and the personal lives of women. The Weekly Wash / Christine Zmroczek -- A 'trade Union For Married Women' : The Women's Co-operative Guild 1914-1920 / Gillian Scott -- The Women's Institute Movement : The Acceptable Face Of Feminism? / Maggie Morgan -- A Woman's Right To Work? The Role Of Women In The Unemployed Movement Between The Wars / Sue Bruley -- The Culture Of Femininity In Women's Teacher Training Colleges 1914-1945 / Elizabeth Edwards -- The Diary Of Doreen Bates : Single Parenthood And The Civil Service / Elizabeth Mcclair -- Gendering Patriotism : Emmeline And Christabel Pankhurst And World War One / Jacqueline De Vries -- England's Casandras In World War One / Sybil Oldfield -- Women In The British Union Of Fascists, 1932-1940 / Martin Durham -- British Feminists And Anti-fascism In The 1930s / Jahonna Alberti -- Working With The 'kindertransports' / Veronica Gillespie -- An Austrian Refugee In Wartime Manchester / Hanna Behrend -- 'a Fair Field And No Favour' : Women Artist Working In Britain Between The Wars / Katy Deepwell -- British Women Surrealists -- Deviants From Deviance? / Brigitte Libmann -- Hilda Matheson And The Bbc, 1926-1940 / Fred Hunter -- 'nothing Is Impracticable For A Single, Middle-age Women's Fiction Of Her Own' : The Spinster In Women's Fiction Of The 1920s / Maroula Joannou -- Chloe, Olivia, Isabel, Letitia, Harriete, Honor, And Many More : Women In Medicine And Biomedical Science, 1914-1945 / Lesley A. Hall. Edited By Sybil Oldfield. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Part 1 Social history: jam and Jerusalem - the acceptable face of feminism? Maggie Morgan; the culture of femininity in women's teacher training colleges 1914-1945, Elizabeth Edwards. Part 2 Political history: women in the British Union of Fascists, 1932-1940, Martin Durham; an Austrian refugee in wartime Manchester, Hanna Behrend. Part 3 Cultural history: ""A Fair Field and No Favour?""--Women artists working in Britain between the wars, Katy Deepwell; Chloe, Olivia, Isabel, Letitia, Harriette, Honor and many more - women in medicine and biomedical science, 1914- 1945, Lesley A. Hall. Part c ..