TY - GEN digital ID - 131679807 TI - The History of British Women’s Writing, 1945–1975 AU - Hanson, Clare AU - Watkins, Susan PY - 2017 SN - 9781137477361 PB - London Palgrave Macmillan UK :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan DB - UniCat KW - Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality KW - Sociology KW - Fiction KW - English literature KW - Literature KW - History KW - science fiction KW - sociologie KW - diaspora KW - fantasy KW - feminisme KW - literatuur KW - vrouwen KW - gender KW - literatuurgeschiedenis KW - Engelse literatuur KW - Christie, Agatha KW - Lessing, Doris KW - Jameson, Storm KW - MacInnes, Helen KW - anno 1940-1949 KW - anno 1950-1959 KW - anno 1960-1969 KW - anno 1970-1979 KW - Great Britain KW - Ireland UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:131679807 AB - This volume reshapes our understanding of British literary culture from 1945-1975 by exploring the richness and diversity of women’s writing of this period. Essays by leading scholars reveal the range and intensity of women writers’ engagement with post-war transformations including the founding of the Welfare State, the gradual liberalization of attitudes to gender and sexuality and the reconfiguration of Britain and the empire in the context of the Cold War. Attending closely to the politics of form, the sixteen essays range across ‘literary’, ‘middlebrow’ and ‘popular’ genres, including espionage thrillers and historical fiction, children’s literature and science fiction, as well as poetry, drama and journalism. They examine issues including realism and experimentalism, education, class and politics, the emergence of ‘second-wave’ feminism, responses to the Holocaust and mass migration and diaspora. The volume offers an exciting reassessment of women’s writing at a time of radical social change and rapid cultural expansion. . ER -