Research Catalog

Title

Gender, work and education in Britain in the 1950s / Stephanie Spencer.

Author

Spencer, Stephanie, 1952-

Publication

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

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Details

Description

xii, 253 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"The Coronation in 1953 marked the start of a 'New Elizabethan Age'. Improvements in education together with an expanding economy ensured a range of employment opportunities for young people. Yet girls' full acceptance into the world of adult women was still confirmed by marriage and motherhood rather than a high powered career. Jobs might offer a 'stop-gap' between school and marriage. This book examines the gendered nature of the term 'career' during the 1950s through a focus on girls' school-leaving decisions. Employment education came from a variety of sources: the Youth Employment Officer, careers' advice in schools, women's and girls' magazines and the career novel. Using both written sources and interviews with women who left school in the 1950s it focuses on the relationship between individual 'women' and the overarching representation of 'Woman' in a decade which has been overlooked in favour of the swinging sixties."--Jacket.

Subject

• Since 1900
• Geschichte 1950-1960
• Women > Great Britain > Social conditions > 20th century
• Women > Employment > History > Great Britain > 20th century
• Women > Education > History > Great Britain > 20th century
• Sex role > Great Britain > History > 20th century
• Nineteen fifties
• Women > Social conditions > Great Britain > 20th century
• Sex role
• Social conditions
• Women > Education
• Women > Employment
• Women > Social conditions
• Bildung
• Berufstätigkeit
• Frau
• Great Britain > Social conditions > 1945-
• Great Britain
• Großbritannien

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [234]-245) and index.

Contents

The forgotten generation -- Women and the welfare state -- The welfare state and women's history -- The Beveridge Report -- Women's organisations' response to the Beveridge Report -- Mass observation -- Formal education and career choice -- 1950s sociological and educational research -- The Headmistresses' and the Assistant Headmistresses' Associations -- The Crowther Report -- Advice manuals and Women's employment -- 1950s sociological literature -- Youth Employment Service and advice manuals -- Women's employment -- The career novels -- List of career novels for girls -- Girl to Woman -- Beloning : the female "club" -- The woman you want to be -- A woman's work -- "My own front door" remembering the 1950s -- The interview process -- Family and school -- Work and marriage -- Constructing the self : looking back -- Statistical appendix.

ISBN

• 1403938164
• 9781403938169

LCCN

• 2005045417
• 9781403938169

OCLC

• ocm58721081
• 58721081
• SCSB-1374063

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library