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Women and Work in Modern Britain

Author : Rosemary Crompton
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 9780198780977
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Women and Work in Modern Britain written by Rosemary Crompton and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 1997 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The latest in the successful Oxford Modern Britain series, Women and Work in Modern Britain provides a highly accessible introduction to this important topic. Rosemary Crompton gives a full account of the recent changes in the structure of women's employment, incorporating a comprehensive review of the theoretical concepts and arguments developed to explain them. Discussing the pattern of women's paid employment from the standpoint of both constraint and individual choice, the author begins by examining the variety of explanations offered to understand the situation of women in work in twentieth-century Britain. In subsequent chapters she discusses the nature and extent of women's employment in Britain today; cross-national comparisons of the differential structuring of women's employment; women as employees; and the impact on the lives of both women and men of the changing employment/family interface and its implications for the wider structure of inequality and socialpolarization in Britain. Clearly and engagingly written, with useful chapter summaries highlighting key points and discussions, Women and Work in Modern Britain will be essential reading for students and teachers alike.

Women’s Bookscapes in Early Modern Britain

Author : Leah Knight
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472131095
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book Women’s Bookscapes in Early Modern Britain written by Leah Knight and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2018-11-08 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women in 16th- and 17th-century Britain read, annotated, circulated, inventoried, cherished, criticized, prescribed, and proscribed books in various historically distinctive ways. Yet, unlike that of their male counterparts, the study of women’s reading practices and book ownership has been an elusive and largely overlooked field. In thirteen probing essays, Women’s Bookscapesin Early Modern Britain brings together the work of internationally renowned scholars investigating key questions about early modern British women’s figurative, material, and cultural relationships with books. What constitutes evidence of women’s readerly engagement? How did women use books to achieve personal, political, religious, literary, economic, social, familial, or communal goals? How does new evidence of women’s libraries and book usage challenge received ideas about gender in relation to knowledge, education, confessional affiliations, family ties, and sociability? How do digital tools offer new possibilities for the recovery of information on early modern women readers? The volume’s three-part structure highlights case studies of individual readers and their libraries; analyses of readers and readership in the context of their interpretive communities; and new types of scholarly evidence—lists of confiscated books and convent rules, for example—as well as new methodologies and technologies for ongoing research. These essays dismantle binaries of private and public; reading and writing; female and male literary engagement and production; and ownership and authorship. Interdisciplinary, timely, cohesive, and concise, this collection’s fresh, revisionary approaches represent substantial contributions to scholarship in early modern material culture; book history and print culture; women’s literary and cultural history; library studies; and reading and collecting practices more generally.

Gender in Modern Britain

Author : Nickie Charles
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Gender in Modern Britain written by Nickie Charles and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nickie Charles explores changes in gender divisions and gender identities in Britain since World War II. Situating these two in their economic and political context, the author provides an overview of empirical research on gender in modern Britain.

Women and Work in Britain since 1840

Author : Gerry Holloway
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134513003
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book Women and Work in Britain since 1840 written by Gerry Holloway and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-05-07 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book of its kind to study this period, Gerry Holloway's essential student resource works chronologically from the early 1840s to the end of the twentieth century and examines over 150 years of women’s employment history. With suggestions for research topics, an annotated bibliography to aid further research, and a chronology of important events which places the subject in a broader historical context, Gerry Holloway considers how factors such as class, age, marital status, race and locality, along with wider economic and political issues, have affected women’s job opportunities and status. Key themes and issues that run through the book include: continuity and change the sexual division of labour women as a cheap labour force women’s perceived primary role of motherhood women and trade unions equality and difference education and training. Students of women’s studies, gender studies and history will find this a fascinating and invaluable addition to their reading material.

Precarious Professionals

Author : Heidi Egginton
Publisher : University of London Press
ISBN 13 : 9781912702596
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book Precarious Professionals written by Heidi Egginton and published by University of London Press. This book was released on 2021-04-30 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Female Patients in Early Modern Britain

Author : Wendy D. Churchill
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317135970
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Female Patients in Early Modern Britain written by Wendy D. Churchill and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This investigation contributes to the existing scholarship on women and medicine in early modern Britain by examining the diagnosis and treatment of female patients by male professional medical practitioners from 1590 to 1740. In order to obtain a clearer understanding of female illness and medicine during this period, this study examines ailments that were specific and unique to female patients as well as illnesses and conditions that afflicted both female and male patients. Through a qualitative and quantitative analysis of practitioners' records and patients' writings - such as casebooks, diaries and letters - an emphasis is placed on medical practice. Despite the prevalence of females amongst many physicians' casebooks and the existence of sex-based differences in the consultations, diagnoses and treatments of patients, there is no evidence to indicate that either the health or the medical care of females was distinctly disadvantaged by the actions of male practitioners. Instead, the diagnoses and treatments of women were premised on a much deeper and more nuanced understanding of the female body than has previously been implied within the historiography. In turn, their awareness and appreciation of the unique features of female anatomy and physiology meant that male practitioners were sympathetic and accommodating to the needs of individual female patients during this pivotal period in British medicine.

Women and Work Culture

Author : Louise A. Jackson
Publisher : Studies in Labour History
ISBN 13 : 9781138270817
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Women and Work Culture written by Louise A. Jackson and published by Studies in Labour History. This book was released on 2017-03-29 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By focusing on the experiences of British women between c.1850 and 1950, this collection highlights the ways in which the concept of gender operated as an organising principle in the construction and negotiation of identities and practices in British society.

Women in Early Modern England, 1550-1720

Author : Sara Heller Mendelson
Publisher : Oxford ; New York : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Women in Early Modern England, 1550-1720 written by Sara Heller Mendelson and published by Oxford ; New York : Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an original, accessible, and comprehensive survey of life as it was experienced by most Englishwomen during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The authors examine virtually all aspects of women's lives: female life-stages from birth to death; the separate culture of women, including female friendship and feminist consciousness; the diverse roles of women in the religious and political movements of the day; and the effect of prevailing perceptions of gender differences. Comparisons are made between the makeshift economy of poor women and the occupational identities, and preoccupations, of the middling and elite classes. This fascinating and well-illustrated book reconstructs the mental and material world of Tudor and Stuart women. It will become the standard text on the subject.

Working For Women?

Author : Celia Briar
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135360650
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (353 download)

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Download or read book Working For Women? written by Celia Briar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-01-14 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This Working-Day World

Author : Sybil Oldfield
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 9780748401086
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book This Working-Day World written by Sybil Oldfield and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1994-01-07 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Women and Literature in Britain, 1500-1700

Author : Helen Wilcox
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521467773
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (677 download)

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Download or read book Women and Literature in Britain, 1500-1700 written by Helen Wilcox and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-11-13 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First comprehensive introduction to women's role in, and access to, literary culture in early modern Britain.

The Professions in Early Modern England, 1450-1800

Author : Rosemary O'Day
Publisher : Pearson Education
ISBN 13 : 9780582292642
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book The Professions in Early Modern England, 1450-1800 written by Rosemary O'Day and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2000 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Professions in Early Modern England, 1450-1800 looks at the growth of a professional working class from the Tudor period to the early nineteenth century, a working class vital in the development of a recognizably modern world. Examines the differences between the 'lettered' and the leisured classes and explores the lives of lawyers, politicians, physicians, teachers and clerics. Those interested in British or social history. Hardcover - 0-582-29265-4 $ 84.95 y

Women, Work, and Wages in England, 1600-1850

Author : Penelope Lane
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1843830779
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Women, Work, and Wages in England, 1600-1850 written by Penelope Lane and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2004 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work of women is recognised as having been fundamental to the industrialization of Britain. These studies explore how that work was remunerated, in studies that range across time, region and occupation. Topics include the changing nature of women's work, customary norms, and women and the East India Company.

British Women in the Nineteenth Century

Author : Kathryn Gleadle
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1403937540
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (39 download)

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Book Synopsis British Women in the Nineteenth Century by : Kathryn Gleadle

Download or read book British Women in the Nineteenth Century written by Kathryn Gleadle and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This highly original synthesis is a clear and stimulating assessment of nineteenth-century British women. It aims to provide students with an in-depth understanding of the key historiographical debates and issues, placing particular emphasis upon recent, revisionist research. The book highlights not merely the ideologies and economic circumstances which shaped women's lives, but highlights the sheer diversity of women's own experiences and identities. In so doing, it presents a positive but nuanced interpretation of women's roles within their own families and communities, as well as stressing women's enormous contribution to the making of contemporary British culture and society.

Women in Contemporary Britain

Author : Jane Pilcher
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134672527
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book Women in Contemporary Britain written by Jane Pilcher and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-22 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this introductory text for A level students and undergraduates, Jane Pilcher covers the main issues debated about women in Britain today. Subjects covered include: * women and gender: sociological perspectives * education and training * women and paid work * household work and caring * love and sexuality * crime and punishment * politics and participation. Providing a clear sociological analysis of central debates and an introduction to the main theoretical arguments as well as including discussions of further areas of interest, such as women and the media, and the body, this text will provide an invaluable resource for all students in sociology and womens studies and will be of interest to all those wishing to know more about contemporary society in Britain.

Women’s Work in Britain and France

Author : Abigail Gregory
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 023059851X
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Women’s Work in Britain and France written by Abigail Gregory and published by Springer. This book was released on 2000-01-27 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women's Work in Britain and France is a ground-breaking retheorization of what constitutes 'progress' in gender relations. The book shows that French women, although having more full-time and continuous careers and greater social policy support, retain as great a responsibility for unpaid domestic and caring work as their British counterparts. It replaces the conventional focus upon encouraging women's increased insertion into employment as the principal strategy for achieving progress in gender relations with a new focus on changing men's work patterns.

Women and Work in Pre-industrial England

Author : Lindsey Charles
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415623014
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book Women and Work in Pre-industrial England written by Lindsey Charles and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book surveys women and work in English society before its transition to industrial capitalism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The time span of the book from 1300 to 1800 allows comparison of women’s work patterns across various phases of economic and social organisation. It was originally published in 1985. Several important themes are highlighted throughout the individual contributions in the book. The most significant is the association between home and work. Not only was trade and manufacture in the pre-industrial period carried out in close proximity to domestic life, many household activities also overlapped with commercial ones. The second key theme is the importance of the local social and economic environment in shaping the nature and extent of women’s work. The book also demonstrates the similarity between certain aspects of women’s work before and after industrialisation. The industrial revolution may have made sexual divisions of labour more apparent but their origins lie firmly in the pre-industrial period.