Table Of ContentWOMEN IN
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WOMEN IN
TWENTIETH-CENTURY
BRITAIN
Edited by
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To our grandmothers, mothers, sisters and daughters
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CONTENTS
List of Illustrations zx
List of Figures xi
List of Tables xii
Acknowledgements xzzz
1. Introduction 1
Ina Zweiniger-Bargi,elowska
2. Changing the Subject: Women's History and Historiography
1900-2000 16
Billie Melman
PART ONE: THE LIFE COURSE
3. Girlhood and Growing Up 35
Penny Tinkler
4. Sexuality 51
Lesley A. Hall
5. Marriage 69
Jane Lewis
6. Health and Reproduction 86
Helen Jones
7. Ageing - Older Women 102
Pat Thane
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PART TWO: WORK - PAID AND UNPAID
8. Education 119
Carol Dyhouse
9. Family, Caring and Unpaid Work 134
Katherine Holden
10. Housewifery 149
Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska
11. Paid Work 165
Deirdre McCloskey
PART THREE: CULTURE, CONSUMPTION AND
TRANSGRESSION
12. The Body and Consumer Culture 183
Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska
13. Crime 198
Shani D'Cruze
14. Prostitution 214
Paula BartlRy and Barbara Gwinnett
15. Leisure and Popular Culture 229
Martin Francis
PART FOUR: THE STATE AND CITIZENSHIP
16. The Women's Movement, Politics and Citizenship from the
late Nineteenth Century until 1918 247
Sandra Stanley Holton
17. The Women's Movement, Politics and Citizenship, 1918-1950s 262
Caitriona Beaumont
18. The Women's Movement, Politics and Citizenship, 1960s-2000 278
Harold L. Smith
19. 'Race', Ethnicity and National Identity 292
Wendy Webster
20. War and Peace 307
Lucy Noakes
21. The State and Social Policy 321
Harriet Jones
Key Dates and Events 336
Notes on Contributors 348
Index 352
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
1.1 Girls, c. 1900 3
1.2 Girls, 2000 3
2.1 Eileen Power teaching at Girton College, 1919 21
2.2 Eileen Power in the year of her Khan Travelling
Fellowship, 1920-21 21
3.1 Girls, c. 1920s 36
3.2 A secondary school hockey team, Winckley Square Convent,
early 1920s 36
3.3 Cover page of Valentine, a teenage girls' magazine, 1957 46
4.1 Marie Stopes leaving the Law Courts, 1923, during her
libel case against Halliday Sutherland 56
4.2 'Too Great A Risk!', Family Planning Association, 1973 62-65
5.1 A young couple getting married, 2000 70
5.2 Still from David Lean's classic film Brief Encounter (1945) 82
6.1 School nurse, mothers and children outside a school clinic,
Plymouth, Devon, late 1930s 93
6.2 Healthy young women enjoying their leisure time in the 1950s 98
7.1 Beatrice Webb aged 83 at home in Liphook, Hampshire, 1941 109
7.2 'Holiday Kicks'. Older women enjoying the seaside, 1955 113
8.1 Women students at Sussex University in the 1960s and the 1990s 125
8.2 Girls as handicapped in 'The Educational Rat Race', a board
game devised by the Women and Education Newsletter
Collective, 1980 128
9.1 An extended family group, early 1950s 140
9.2 A woman with her great-nephew, early 1980s 142
10.l 'Lucy and Ajax Liquid Versus Kitchen Grease', Woman,
April 1972 152
10.2 'Another Atom which May Explode any Moment', Sunday
Dispatch, June 1946 155
11.1 A nanny with child, early 1920s 172
11.2 Margaret Thatcher aged 28, with her twins, 1954 175
