Product details:
ISBN13: | 9781441140685 |
ISBN10: | 1441140689 |
Binding: | Hardback |
No. of pages: | 232 pages |
Size: | 234x156 mm |
Weight: | 508 g |
Language: | English |
127 |
Category:
Women and Evacuation in the Second World War
Femininity, Domesticity and Motherhood
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Date of Publication: 8 August 2019
Number of Volumes: Hardback
Normal price:
Publisher's listprice:
GBP 110.00
GBP 110.00
Your price:
42 504 (40 480 HUF + 5% VAT )
discount is: 20% (approx 10 626 HUF off)
Discount is valid until: 30 June 2024
The discount is only available for 'Alert of Favourite Topics' newsletter recipients.
Click here to subscribe.
Click here to subscribe.
Availability:
printed on demand
Can't you provide more accurate information?
Long description:
Groups of young evacuees, standing on railway stations with gas masks and cardboard suitcases have become an iconic image of wartime Britain, but their histories have eclipsed those of women whose domestic lives were affected. This book explores the effects of this unparalleled interference in the domestic lives of women, looking at the impact on everyday experience and on ideas of femininity, domesticity and motherhood.
Maggie Andrews argues that wartime evacuation is important for understanding the experience and the contested meanings of domesticity and motherhood in the 20th century. As this book shows, evacuation represents a significant and unrecognised area of women's war work, and precipitated the rise of competing public discourses about domestic labour and motherhood.
Maggie Andrews argues that wartime evacuation is important for understanding the experience and the contested meanings of domesticity and motherhood in the 20th century. As this book shows, evacuation represents a significant and unrecognised area of women's war work, and precipitated the rise of competing public discourses about domestic labour and motherhood.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
1. Myths, Memories and Memorials of Evacuation
2. Femininity, Domesticity and Motherhood 1900-1939
3. Nationalising Hundreds and Thousands of Women: A Domestic Response to a National Problem
4. The Challenges of Enforced Intimacy: Looking after Evacuees
5. Mothers Encouraged to Wave Goodbye
6. Women's Organisations and Evacuation
7. Women Were Paid to Care: Teachers, Social Workers and Psychologists
8. Afterword: The Post-war Idealisation of the Family in the Wake Evacuation
Bibliography
Index
1. Myths, Memories and Memorials of Evacuation
2. Femininity, Domesticity and Motherhood 1900-1939
3. Nationalising Hundreds and Thousands of Women: A Domestic Response to a National Problem
4. The Challenges of Enforced Intimacy: Looking after Evacuees
5. Mothers Encouraged to Wave Goodbye
6. Women's Organisations and Evacuation
7. Women Were Paid to Care: Teachers, Social Workers and Psychologists
8. Afterword: The Post-war Idealisation of the Family in the Wake Evacuation
Bibliography
Index