Women, Social Leadership, and the Second World War: Continuities of Class
The associational life of middle-class women in twentieth-century England has been largely ignored by historians. During the Second World War women's clubs, guilds, and institutes provided a basis for the mobilization of up to a million women, mainly housewives, into unpaid part-time work.Women's Voluntary Service, which was set up by the Government in 1938 to organize this work, generated a rich archive of reports and correspondence which provide the social historian with a unique window into the female public sphere. Questioning the view that the Second World War served to democratize English society, James Hinton shows how the war enabled…
Mehr
CHF 212.00
Preise inkl. MwSt. und Versandkosten (Portofrei ab CHF 40.00)
V105:
Folgt in ca. 15 Arbeitstagen
Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-19-924329-7
- EAN: 9780199243297
- Produktnummer: 22673826
- Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
- Seitenangabe: 300 S.
- Masse: H24.3 cm x B16.4 cm x D2.4 cm 537 g
- Auflage: New
- Gewicht: 537
70 weitere Werke von James Hinton:
Bewertungen
Anmelden