Precarious Professionals : Gender, Identities and Social Change in Modern Britain / Heidi Egginton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Egginton, Heidi, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex role in the work environment.

Professional employees.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

London : University of London Press, 2021.

Summary:

Precarious Professionals uncovers the inequalities and insecurities which lay at the heart of professional life in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain. The book challenges conventional categories in the history of work, exploring instead the everyday labour of maintaining a professional identity on the margins of the traditional professions. Situating new historical perspectives on gender at the forefront of their research, the contributors explore how professional cultures could not only define themselves against, but often flourished outside of, the confines of patriarchal codes and structures.

Contents:

Cover

Imprint

Contents

Acknowledgements

List of figures

Notes on contributors

Introduction

Heidi Egginton and Zoë Thomas

1. Anna Jameson and the claims of art criticism in nineteenth-century England

Benjamin Dabby

2. Women, science and professional identity, c.1860-1914

Claire G. Jones

3. Brother barristers: masculinity and the culture of the Victorian bar

Ren Pepitone

4. Legal paperwork and public policy: Eliza Orme's professional expertise in late-Victorian Britain

Leslie Howsam 5. Marriage and metalwork: gender and professional status in Edith and Nelson Dawson's Arts and Crafts partnership*

Zoë Thomas

6. 'Giggling adolescents' to refugees, bullets and wolves: Francesca Wilson finds a profession*

Ellen Ross

7. Women at work in the League of Nations Secretariat

Susan Pedersen

8. Ninette de Valois and the transformation of early-twentieth-century British ballet*

Laura Quinton

9. Archives, autobiography and the professional woman: the personal papers of Mary Agnes Hamilton*

Heidi Egginton

10. Women historians in the twentieth century* Laura Carter

11. Feminism, selfhood and social research: professional women's organizations in 1960s Britain

Helen McCarthy

12. The 'spotting a homosexual checklist': masculinity, homosexuality and the British Foreign Office, 1965-70*

James Southern

Afterword

Christina de Bellaigue

Index.

Notes:

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