Victorian Ladies At Work
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Author |
: Lee Holcombe |
Publisher |
: [Hamden, Conn.] : Archon Books |
Total Pages |
: 272 |
Release |
: 1973 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015046843671 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
Synopsis Victorian Ladies at Work by : Lee Holcombe
Includes sections on education / teachers, nursing, the trades, and the civil service.
Author |
: Arlene Young |
Publisher |
: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 2019-05-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780773558489 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0773558489 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (89 Downloads) |
Synopsis From Spinster to Career Woman by : Arlene Young
The late Victorian period brought a radical change in cultural attitudes toward middle-class women and work. Anxiety over the growing disproportion between women and men in the population, combined with an awakening desire among young women for personal and financial freedom, led progressive thinkers to advocate for increased employment opportunities. The major stumbling block was the persistent conviction that middle-class women - "ladies" - could not work without relinquishing their social status. Through media reports, public lectures, and fictional portrayals of working women, From Spinster to Career Woman traces advocates' efforts to alter cultural perceptions of women, work, class, and the ideals of womanhood. Focusing on the archetypal figures of the hospital nurse and the typewriter, Arlene Young analyzes the strategies used to transform a job perceived as menial into a respected profession and to represent office work as progressive employment for educated women. This book goes beyond a standard examination of historical, social, and political realities, delving into the intense human elements of a cultural shift and the hopes and fears of young women seeking independence. Providing new insights into the Victorian period, From Spinster to Career Woman captures the voices of ordinary women caught up in the frustrations and excitements of a new era.
Author |
: Marianne Van Remoortel |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 169 |
Release |
: 2015-08-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781137435996 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1137435992 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (96 Downloads) |
Synopsis Women, Work and the Victorian Periodical by : Marianne Van Remoortel
Covering a wide range of magazine work, including editing, illustration, poetry, needlework instruction and typesetting, this book provides fresh insights into the participation of women in the nineteenth-century magazine industry.
Author |
: Lynn Mae Alexander |
Publisher |
: Ohio University Press |
Total Pages |
: 266 |
Release |
: 2003 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780821414934 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0821414933 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (34 Downloads) |
Synopsis Women, Work, and Representation by : Lynn Mae Alexander
In Victorian England, virtually all women were taught to sew, but this essentially domestic virtue took on a different aspect for the professional seamstress of the day. This study considers the way this powerful image of working-class suffering was used by social reformers in art and literature.
Author |
: Joan Perkin |
Publisher |
: NYU Press |
Total Pages |
: 288 |
Release |
: 1995 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0814766250 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780814766255 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
Synopsis Victorian Women by : Joan Perkin
A reprint of a book first published in 1993 by John Murray, UK. Perkins (women's history, Northwestern U.) uses letters, memoirs, and other revealing, first-hand sources to describe the social conditions of women of all classes during the Victorian era. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author |
: Tracy C. Davis |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 361 |
Release |
: 2002-03-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781134934461 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1134934467 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
Synopsis Actresses as Working Women by : Tracy C. Davis
Using historical evidence as well as personal accounts, Tracy C. Davis examines the reality of conditions for `ordinary' actresses, their working environments, employment patterns and the reasons why acting continued to be such a popular, though insecure, profession. Firmly grounded in Marxist and feminist theory she looks at representations of women on stage, and the meanings associated with and generated by them.
Author |
: Florence s. Boos |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 354 |
Release |
: 2017-12-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783319642154 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3319642154 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (54 Downloads) |
Synopsis Memoirs of Victorian Working-Class Women by : Florence s. Boos
This volume is the first to identify a significant body of life narratives by working-class women and to demonstrate their inherent literary significance. Placing each memoir within its generic, historical, and biographical context, this book traces the shifts in such writings over time, examines the circumstances which enabled working-class women authors to publish their life stories, and places these memoirs within a wider autobiographical tradition. Additionally, Memoirs of Victorian Working-Class Women enables readers to appreciate the clear-sightedness, directness, and poignancy of these works.
Author |
: Cindy Sondik Aron |
Publisher |
: New York : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 245 |
Release |
: 1987 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780195048742 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0195048741 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ladies and Gentlemen of the Civil Service by : Cindy Sondik Aron
Drawing from workers' applications, testimonies, and other primary documents, this book examines the changing roles of federal civil servants during the crucial period between 1860 and 1900 as they formed part of the first white-collar bureaucracy in the United States.
Author |
: Monica F. Cohen |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 234 |
Release |
: 1998-02-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780521591416 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0521591414 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Synopsis Professional Domesticity in the Victorian Novel by : Monica F. Cohen
Much attention has recently been given by scholars to the widening of the gender gap in the nineteenth century and the concept of separate spheres. Testing such constructions, and questioning the stereotypes associated with Victorian domesticity, Monica F. Cohen offers new readings of narratives by Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Dickens, Eliot, Eden, Gaskell, Oliphant and Reade to show how domestic work, the most feminine of all activities, gained much of its social credibility by positioning itself in relation to the emergent professions. By exploring how novels cast the Victorian conception of female morality into the vocabulary of nineteenth-century professionalism, Cohen traces the ways in which women sought identity and privilege within a professionalised culture, and revises our understanding of Victorian domestic ideology.
Author |
: Gerry Holloway |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 324 |
Release |
: 2007-05-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781134512997 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1134512996 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (97 Downloads) |
Synopsis Women and Work in Britain since 1840 by : Gerry Holloway
The first book of its kind to study this period, Gerry Holloway's essential student resource works chronologically from the early 1840s to the end of the twentieth century and examines over 150 years of women’s employment history. With suggestions for research topics, an annotated bibliography to aid further research, and a chronology of important events which places the subject in a broader historical context, Gerry Holloway considers how factors such as class, age, marital status, race and locality, along with wider economic and political issues, have affected women’s job opportunities and status. Key themes and issues that run through the book include: continuity and change the sexual division of labour women as a cheap labour force women’s perceived primary role of motherhood women and trade unions equality and difference education and training. Students of women’s studies, gender studies and history will find this a fascinating and invaluable addition to their reading material.