Gender, Modernity, and the Popular Press in Inter-War Britain
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 8 July 2004
- ISBN 9780199272471
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages278 pages
- Size 242x163x21 mm
- Weight 625 g
- Language English
- Illustrations numerous halftones 0
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Short description:
Bingham uses the popular press to explore the attitudes and identities of inter-war Britain, and in particular the reshaping of femininity and masculinity. He provides a fresh insight into a period when women and men were coming to terms with rapid social change, and deepens our understanding of the development of the modern media.
MoreLong description:
Journalists often claim that they write the first draft of history, but few historians examine the press in detail when preparing later drafts. This book demonstrates the value of popular newspapers as a historical source by using them to explore the attitudes and identites of inter-war Britain, and in particular the reshaping of femininity and masculinity. It provides a fresh insight into a period of great significance in the making of twentieth century gender identities, when women and men were coming to terms with the upheavals of the Great War, the arrival of democracy, and rapid social change. The book also deepens our understanding of the development of the modern media by showing how newspaper editors, in the fierce competition for readers, developed a template for the popular press that is still influential today.
Conceptually innovative and meticulously researched, Bingham's book will be indispensable to historians of gender, popular culture, and media... it would be difficult to overestimate its significance as a revisionist account of 20th-century cultural transformations.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
The evolution of the popular daily press
The discourse of modernity
Traditional duties: housewife, mother, consumer
Reshaping the political sphere: the female voter
The gendered gaze: fashion, the female body and sexual morality
Patriotism and citizenship: the gendered languages of war and peace
Masculinity: ideals and anxieties
Conclusions
Appendix: The women's pages
Bibliography
