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Feminist lives : women, feelings, and the self in post-war Britain / Lynn Abrams.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Abrams, Lynn, author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sex role--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Sex role.
- Women--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Women.
- Women--Great Britain--Social conditions--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (242 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Summary:
- This work tells the story of women growing up in post-war Britain, rejecting the self-sacrifice of their mothers' generation and embracing new ways of living, feeling, and being in the decades before Women's Liberation. They were feminists before feminism, which we see through their descriptions of themselves, their relationships, their feelings, and actions.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Halftitle page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Abbreviations
- 1. Revolution of the Self
- Introduction
- The Post-War Landscape
- Feminist Encounters
- Spaces for the Self
- Feminism and Subjectivity
- The Emotional Self
- The Expressive Self
- Feminist Lives
- 2. Mothers and Daughters
- Mothers: Self-sacrifice to Self-realization
- Finding the Real Me
- Aspirations and Expectations
- What Daughters Thought
- Conclusions
- 3. Fashioning the Self
- Dedicated Followers of Fashion
- Home-made
- Ticket to Ride
- 4. Intimate Selves
- Histories of Intimacy and Liberation
- Imagining Intimate Futures
- Spaces, Experimentation, and Constraint
- Choice and Autonomy
- 5. Settling Down
- Expectations of Marriage
- Togetherness
- Together but Unequal
- Reclaiming the Self
- 6. The Expressive Self
- Cynthia's Story
- Unhappy Housewives
- Talking about Feelings
- Researching Women's Feelings
- Spaces for Screaming
- Self-Help or Just Help?
- 7. Liberating the Domestic Self
- Stay-at-Home Mothers
- Stepping Stones
- Catalyst for Change
- Challenges of 'Do-It-Yourself'
- Back to Work
- 8. Caring for the Self
- The Feminist Spectrum
- Self-Care
- Feminist Voices
- Becoming Visible
- Coda
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2023.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on August 14, 2023).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Abrams, Lynn Feminist Lives
- ISBN:
- 9780191919640
- 0191919640
- 9780192651112
- 0192651110
- OCLC:
- 1393439561
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