Women, Identity and Private Life in Britain, 1900-50

by Andrew Gamble, Gillian Peele

Overview

Women, Identity and Private Life in Britain, 1900-50, explores the meanings and experience of home and private life for women who grew up in England before 1950. It considers the extent to which class, suburbanisation and historical moment as well as gender constructed women's understanding of domesticity, and discusses the part played by conceptions of home and private life in the shaping of identities. Oral narratives, fiction, autobiography and diaries are used in conjunction with psychoanalytic, linguistic and historical explanations of women's lives to map a psychological as well as a social history of women's relationship to the home in the early part of this century.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333640838
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	04/10/1995
Series:	Women's Studies at York Series
Edition description:	1995
Pages:	189
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements - Introduction - 'Making Do' and 'Getting By' - A Home of Their Own - 'Keeping Yourself to Yourself': Private Lives and Public Spectacles - Servant and Mistress: The Case of Domestic Service - Afterword - Bibliography - Index

Editorial Reviews

Oral narratives, fiction, autobiography, and diary entries are combined with psychoanalytic, linguistic, and historical explanations of women's lives to map a psychological as well as a social history of English womenUs relationship to the home in the first half of this century. Chapter titles are: "making do" and "getting by" (covering class and gender issues); a home of their own (suburban voices); "keeping yourself to yourself"--private lives and public spectacles (sexuality and other privacy issues); and servant and mistress--the case of domestic service. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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