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

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  • © 1995

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Authors:
  1. Judy Giles

    1. University College of Ripon and York St John, UK

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Part of the book series: Women's Studies at York Series (WSYS)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction

    • Judy Giles
    Pages 1-30

  3. ‘Making Do’ and ‘Getting By’

    • Judy Giles
    Pages 31-63

  4. A Home of Their Own

    • Judy Giles
    Pages 64-95

  5. ‘Keeping Yourself to Yourself’: Private Lives and Public Spectacles

    • Judy Giles
    Pages 96-131

  6. Servant and Mistress: The Case of Domestic Service

    • Judy Giles
    Pages 132-164

  7. Afterword

    • Judy Giles
    Pages 165-173

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 174-189
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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.

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  • University College of Ripon and York St John, UK

    Judy Giles

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