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In search of the new woman : middle-class women and work in Britain, 1870-1914 / Gillian Sutherland.

"The 'New Women' of late nineteenth-century Britain were seen as defying society's conventions. Studying this phenomenon from its origins in the 1870s to the outbreak of the Great War, Gillian Sutherland examines whether women really had the economic freedom to challenge norms re...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Cambridge)
Main Author: Sutherland, Gillian
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Subjects:
Women > Great Britain > Social conditions > 19th century.
Women > Great Britain > Social conditions > 20th century.
Middle class women > Great Britain > Social conditions > 19th century.
Middle class women > Great Britain > Social conditions > 20th century.
Women employees > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Women employees > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
Women white collar workers > Great Britain > Social conditions > 19th century.
Women white collar workers > Great Britain > Social conditions > 20th century.
Great Britain > Social conditions > 19th century.
Great Britain > Social conditions > 20th century.
Middle class women > Social conditions.
Social conditions.
Women employees.
Women > Social conditions.
Great Britain.
1800-1999
History.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. 'A Sort of Bogey whom no-one has ever seen'? The nature of the search
  • 2. 'All that she sees before her ... is teaching': formal schooling and its opportunities
  • 3. ̀The Exercise of what may be termed her maternal faculties': public service and c̀aring' occupations
  • 4. Impossible for a lady to remain a lady': art, literature and the theatre
  • 5. ̀The real social divide existed between those who ... dirtied hands and face and those who did not': women white-collar workers (I)
  • 6. 'A Beggarly Makeshift, but for me it was wealth beyond price': women white-collar workers (II)
  • 7. Ladies and women
  • 8. Some conclusions: degrees of freedom.

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