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Out of the cage : women's experiences in two world wars / Gail Braybon and Penny Summerfield.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Braybon, Gail, author.
- Series:
- Routledge library editions. Women's history.
- Routledge library editions. Women's history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Employment--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Women.
- Women--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Women--Great Britain--Social conditions.
- World War, 1914-1918--Women--Great Britain.
- World War, 1914-1918.
- World War, 1939-1945--Women--Great Britain.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (353 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Originally published in 1987, Out of the Cage brings vividly to life the experiences of working women from all social groups in the two World Wars.Telling a fascinating story, the authors emphasise what the women themselves have had to say, in diaries, memoirs, letters and recorded interviews about the call up, their personal reactions to war, their feelings about pay and the company at work, the effects of war on their health, their relations with men and their home lives; they speak too about how demobilisation affected them, and how they spent the years between two World
- Contents:
- pt. 1. The first world war
- pt. 2. The second world war.
- Notes:
- "First published in 1987"--T.p. verso.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-136-24733-5
- 0-203-10396-3
- 1-299-27917-1
- 1-136-24734-3
- 9780203103968
- OCLC:
- 830161322
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