Maggie Andrews

Janis Lomas

The history of the world has been told in objects. But what about the objects that tell the history of women? What are the items that symbolize the journey of women from second-class citizens with no legal rights, no vote and no official status to the powerful people they are today? And what are the objects that still oppress women? From the corset to the pill, the typewriter to the first pair of women’s trousers and the invention of IVF – there are objects through history that document the developing role of women in society. This story is told here by two leading historians with a lightness of touch that will appeal to all those interested in women’s history, whatever their age.

A History of Women in 100 Objects

N. C. Fleming

Marcus Morris

This book seeks to place children and young people centrally within the study of the contemporary British home front, its cultural representations and its place in the historical memory of the First World War. This edited collection interrogates not only war and its effects on children and young people, but how understandings of this conflict have shaped or been shaped by historical memories of the Great War, which have only allowed for several tropes of childhood during the conflict to emerge. It brings together new research by emerging and established scholars who, through a series of tightly focussed case studies, introduce a range of new histories to both explore the experience of being young during the First World War, and interrogate the memories and representations of the conflict produced for children. Taken together the chapters in this volume shed light on the multiple ways in which the Great War shaped, disrupted and interrupted childhood in Britain, and illuminate simultaneously the selectivity of the portrayal of the conflict within the more typical national narratives.

Histories, Memories and Representations of being Young in the First World War

Mary M. Talbot

Margaret R. Andrews

This collection provides a range of different perspectives on women as consumers. It focuses on popular culture and its female consumers; this includes examinations of popular media and their targetting of female audiences, issues and themes associated with produce purchase.

Women in Twentieth-century Consumer Culture

All the World and Her Husband

In the Women's Institute's 100th anniversary year, this celebrated text is republished in a new and completely revised edition. There is a new chapter on the formation of the WI in the First World War and substantial additions to existing chapters, including discussions of the WI involvement with radio in the inter-war years, and with evacuation in the Second World War. The book also contains a new afterword on the resurgence of cultural enthusiasm for the domestic in the twenty-first century and its relationship to the present-day WI's feminism and growing popularity. Contesting common-sense perceptions about both the Women's Institute and feminism, Andrews interrogates preoccupations with domestic spaces and skills, and evaluates WI campaigns, especially how they articulate and attempt to meet the needs of rural women. The value system that the WI provided is explored as part of the movement's significance as The Acceptable Face of Feminism. 'This is the absolute best book on the history of the WI - authoritative and deeply researched, yet readable too.' Lucy Worsley, Historian and Chief Curator, Historic Royal Palaces 'The re-issue of this important book, in 2015, for the centenary of the foundation of the Women's Institute Movement, is timely. The cosy idea of the institutes being concerned with just "Jam and Jerusalem" is knocked on its head, as Andrews clearly articulates their role in social welfare and their relationship to feminism. This book enables a broader and more complex appreciation of the institutes, and their contribution to British society.' Professor June Purvis, University of Portsmouth

The Acceptable Face of Feminism

Special Issue: Home Fronts, Gender War and Conflict

The story of the struggle for women's suffrage is not just that of the Pankhursts and Emily Davison. Thousands of others were involved in peaceful protest and sometimes more militant activity and they included women from all walks of life. This book presents the lives of forty-eight less well-known women who tirelessly campaigned for the vote, from all parts of Great Britain and Ireland and from all walks of life. They were the hidden heroines who paved the way for women to gain greater equality in Britain. Fully illustrated with 52 black and white photographs.

The Forgotten Suffragettes

Hidden Heroines

Lucy Noakes

June Purvis

Alison Fell

This lively collection of essays showcases recent research into the impact of the conflict on British women during the First World War and since. Looking outside of the familiar representations of wartime women as nurses, munitionettes, and land girls, it introduces the reader to lesser-known aspects of women’s war experience, including female composers’ musical responses to the war, changes in the culture of women’s mourning dress, and the complex relationships between war, motherhood, and politics. Written during the war’s centenary, the chapters also consider the gendered nature of war memory in Britain, exploring the emotional legacies of the conflict today, and the place of women’s wartime stories on the contemporary stage. The collection brings together work by emerging and established scholars contributing to the shared project of rewriting British women’s history of the First World War. It is an essential text for anyone researching or studying this history. This book was originally published as a special issue of Women’s History Review.

Representing, Remembering, Rewriting

British Women's Histories of the First World War

Sallie McNamara

The media have played a significant role in the contested and changing social position of women in Britain since the 1900s. They have facilitated feminism by both providing discourses and images from which women can construct their identities, and offering spaces where hegemonic ideas of femininity can be reworked. This volume is intended to provide an overview of work on Broadcasting, Film and Print Media from 1900, while appealing to scholars of History and Media, Film and Cultural Studies. This edited collection features tightly focused and historically contextualised case studies which showcase current research on women and media in Britain since the 1900s. The case studies explore media directed at a particularly female audience such as Woman’s Hour, and magazines such as Vogue, Woman and Marie Claire. Women who work in the media, issues of production, and regulation are discussed alongside the representation of women across a broad range of media from early 20th-century motorcycling magazines, Page 3 and regional television news.

Feminism and Femininity in Britain, 1900 to the Present

Women and the Media

Suffragettes learned jiu-jitsu, repelled policemen with their hatpins, burnt down football stadiums and planted bombs. They rented a house near to Holloway Prison and sang rebel anthems to the Suffragettes inside. They barricaded themselves into their homes to repulse tax collectors. They arranged mass runs on Parliament. They had themselves posted to the Prime Minister, getting as far as the door of No. 10. Indomitable older members applied for gun licences to scare the government into thinking they were planning a revolution. Rebels. Warriors. Princesses. Prisoners. Pioneers. Here are 101 of the most extraordinary facts about Suffragettes that you need to know.

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