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Sto caricando le informazioni... Rebel women between the wars: Rebel women between the warsdi Sarah Lonsdale
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. The author says in her introduction that she tried hard to find working-class women to discuss, but couldn't, as middle-class women are more likely to leave documentary evidence. Hmm. Not sure about that; feminist historians such as Jill Liddington have managed to write quite respectable tomes on working-class women. Leaving that aside, however, this is an interesting look at the lives of some of the women who managed to make a mark in the male-dominated world of work and activism during the inter-war years. I suspect some selection-bias as most of the women seem to have worked in the author's own field ("journalist and writer"), but there is also an engineer, a mountaineer, and a war-relief worker, and all the women seem to have been involved in activism to a greater or lesser degree. A very worthwhile read. ( ) nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
What did it mean to be a 'rebel woman' in the interwar years? Taking the form of a multiple biography, this book traces the struggles, passions and achievements of a set of 'fearlessly determined' women who stopped at nothing to make their mark in the traditionally masculine environments of mountaineering, politics, engineering and journalism. From the motorist Claudia Parsons to the 'star' reporter Margaret Lane, the mountaineer Dorothy Pilley and the journalist Shiela Grant Duff, the women charted in this book challenged the status quo in all walks of life, alongside writing vivid, eye-witness accounts of their adventures. Recovering their voices across a range of texts including novels, poems, journalism and diaries, Rebel women between the wars reveals their inch by inch gains won through courageous and sometimes controversial and dangerous actions. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)305.420941Social sciences Social Sciences; Sociology and anthropology Groups of people Women Role in society, status History, geographic treatment, biography EuropeClassificazione LCVotoMedia:
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