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Gender, work and education in Britain in the 1950s [electronic resource] / Stephanie Spencer.

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Main Author: Spencer, Stephanie, 1952-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
Subjects:
Women > Great Britain > Social conditions > 20th century.
Women > Employment > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
Women > Education > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
Sex role > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
Great Britain > Social conditions > 1945-
Nineteen fifties.
Sex role.
Social conditions.
Women > Education.
Women > Employment.
Women > Social conditions.
Great Britain.
History.
Table of 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.

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