1st Edition
Women in Fifties Britain A New Look
Introduction: Revisioning the History of Girls and Women in Britain in the Long 1950s Penny Tinkler, Stephanie Spencer and Claire Langhamer
1. Teetering on the Edge: portraits of innocence, risk and young female sexualities in 1950s’ and 1960s’ British cinema Janet Fink and Penny Tinkler
2. ‘Nothing gets her goat!’ The Farmer’s Wife and the Duality of Rural Femininity in the Young Farmers’ Club Movement in 1950s Britain Sian Edwards
3. Women, Marriage and Paid Work in Post-war Britain Helen McCarthy
4. Taking Work Home: the private secretary and domestic identities in the long 1950s Gillian Murray
5. Feelings, Women and Work in the Long 1950s Claire Langhamer
6. Cosmopolitan Sociability in the British and International Federations of University Women, 1945–1960 Stephanie Spencer
7. Special Relationships: mixed-race couples in post-war Britain and the United States Clive Webb
8. Belonging and ‘Unbelonging’: Jewish refugee and survivor women in 1950s Britain Angela Davis
9. What Do Women Want? Housewives’ Associations, Activism and Changing Representations of Women in the 1950s Caitríona Beaumont
Biography
Penny Tinkler is Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester, UK. Her publications include Constructing Girlhood (1995), Smoke Signals: Women, Smoking and Visual Culture (2006) and Using Photographs in Social and Historical Research (2013). She currently holds an ESRC award: ‘Transitions and Mobilities: Girls growing up in Britain 1954-76 and the implications for later-life experience and identity’.
Stephanie Spencer is Professor of the History of Women’s Education at the University of Winchester, UK. Her publications include Gender, Work and Education in Britain in the 1950s (2005), and Alumni Voices: The Changing Experience of Higher Education (2015). She is currently researching British and American school stories for girls.
Claire Langhamer is Professor of Modern British History at the University of Sussex, UK. Her publications include Women’s Leisure in England, 1920–1960 (2000) and The English in Love: The Intimate Story of an Emotional Revolution (2013). She is currently researching feelings at work in post-war Britain.
