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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Book Title: Women, Identity and Private Life in Britain, 1900–50
Authors: Judy Giles
Series Title: Women's Studies at York Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-23935-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-312-12624-7Published: 14 May 1995
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-333-64083-8Published: 26 March 1995
eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-23935-1Published: 10 April 1995
Series ISSN: 2947-0501
Series E-ISSN: 2947-051X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 189
Topics: Sociology, general, Gender Studies, Personality and Social Psychology, History of Britain and Ireland, Social History, Modern History

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

Front Matter

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

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