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Helen McCarthy

DOUBLE LIVES

A History of Working Motherhood

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A groundbreaking history of mothers who worked for pay that will change the way we think about gender, work and equality in modern Britain. In Britain today, three-quarters of mothers are in employment and paid work is an unremarkable feature of women's lives after childbirth. Yet a century ago, working mothers were in the minority, excluded altogether from many occupations, whilst their wage-earning was widely perceived as a social ill. In Double Lives, Helen McCarthy accounts for this remarkable transformation, whose consequences have been momentous for Britain's society and economy.Drawing upon a wealth of sources, McCarthy ranges from the… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-4088-7073-0
  • EAN: 9781408870730
  • Produktnummer: 32260240
  • Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
  • Seitenangabe: 560 S.
  • Masse: H16.4 cm x B24.1 cm x D5.1 cm 994 g
  • Abbildungen: 1x16pp colour plate section
  • Gewicht: 994
  • Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)

Über den Autor


Helen McCarthy is University Lecturer in Modern British History at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of St John's College. Her first book was The British People and the League of Nations and her second book, Women of the World: The Rise of the Female Diplomat, won Best International Affairs Book at the Political Book Awards 2015. @HistorianHelen

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