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

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Sutherland, Gillian [Author]

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9781316137000
9781316248638
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HQ1593 .I574 2015

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2. Àll 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. Ìmpossible 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. À 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.

Subject: "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 relating to work, political action, love and marriage, and surveys literary and pictorial representations of the New Woman. She considers the proportion of middle-class women who were in employment and the work they did, and compares the different experiences of women who went to Oxbridge and those who went to other universities. Juxtaposing them against the period's rapidly expanding but seldom studied groups of women white-collar workers, the book pays particular attention to clerks and teachers and their political engagement. It also explores the dividing lines between ladies and women, the significance of respectability and the interactions of class, status and gender lying behind such distinctions"-- Subject: "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 relating to work, political action, love and marriage, and surveys literary and pictorial representations of the New Woman."--

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"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 relating to work, political action, love and marriage, and surveys literary and pictorial representations of the New Woman. She considers the proportion of middle-class women who were in employment and the work they did, and compares the different experiences of women who went to Oxbridge and those who went to other universities. Juxtaposing them against the period's rapidly expanding but seldom studied groups of women white-collar workers, the book pays particular attention to clerks and teachers and their political engagement. It also explores the dividing lines between ladies and women, the significance of respectability and the interactions of class, status and gender lying behind such distinctions"--

1. À Sort of Bogey whom no-one has ever seen'? The nature of the search -- 2. Àll 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. Ìmpossible 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. À 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.