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Mid-century women's writing : disrupting the public private divide / edited by Melissa Dinsman, Megan Faragher, and Ravenel Richardson.
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2024.
Description
vi, 242 pages ; 25 cm
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English literature
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Women authors
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20th century
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Women and literature
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Great Britain
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History
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20th century
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Women journalists
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Great Britain
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20th century
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20th century
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Dinsman, Melissa
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Faragher, Megan
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Richardson, Ravenel
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Summary note
The traditional narrative of the mid-century (1930s-60s) is that of a wave of expansion and constriction, with the swelling of economic and political freedoms for women in the 1930s, the cresting of women in the public sphere during the Second World War, and the resulting break as employment and political opportunities for women dwindled in the 1950s when men returned home from the front. But as the burgeoning field of interwar and mid-century women's writing has demonstrated, this narrative is in desperate need of re-examination. Mid-century women's writing: Disrupting the public/private divide aims to revivify studies of female writers, journalists, broadcasters, and public intellectuals living or working in Britain, or under British rule, during the mid-century while also complicating extant narratives about the divisions between domesticity and politics.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: Politicizing the domestic and domesticizing politics - Melissa Dinsman, Megan Faragher, and Ravenel Richardson
Part I: Introduction - Professionalizing the domestic / Megan Faragher
Professional identity and personal space in Mary Renault's Kind are her Answers and Return to Night / Victoria Stewart
Talking shop: Celia Fremlin and invisible work / Luke Seaber
'Some thoroughly tiresome housekeeping crisis': Rebecca West's wartime journalism / Debra Rae Cohen
'Coldly kind': Calculating care in post-war British women's writing / Emily Ridge
Part II - Introduction: Nationalizing gender politics / Melissa Dinsman
New world women and the Labour party win in Marghanita Laski's The Village / Sarah E. Cornish
Beyond 'companionate marriage': Elizabeth Taylor's gendered critique of post-war consensus in A View of the Harbour and A Wreath of Roses / Geneviève Brassard
Dissident friendship and revolutionary love in the novels of Sabitri Roy and Sulekha Sanyal / Sabujkoli Bandopadhyay
The political theory of heaven: Religious nationalism, mystical anarchism, and the Spanish Civil War in Sylvia Townsend Warner's After the Death of Don Juan / Charles Andrews
Part III - Introduction: Women beyond the nation / Ravenel Richardson
'A woman is always a woman!': British women writers and refugees / Katherine Cooper
Families in a time of catastrophe: Anna Gmeyner's Manja, 1920-1938 / Phyllis Lassner
'Some other land, some other sea': Attia Hosain's fiction and nonfiction in Distant Traveller / Ambreen Hai
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ISBN
1526169770
9781526169778
OCLC
1414164244
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