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Public opinion --- Women --- World War, 1939-1945 --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- History --- Employment --- Government policy --- Influence

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"Histories of the Self introduces students and researchers to scholarly approaches to diaries, letters, oral history and memoirs as sources that give access to intimate aspects of the past. Supported by case studies, it is essential reading for students and researchers interested in how personal testimony has been and can be used by historians"--

History --- Letters --- Letter writing --- Diaries --- Autobiography --- Oral history --- Oral biography --- Oral tradition --- Autobiographies --- Egodocuments --- Memoirs --- Biography as a literary form --- Journals (Diaries) --- Biographical sources --- Literature --- Correspondence --- English letter writing --- Letter writing, English --- Writing of letters --- Authorship --- Historiography --- Methodology --- History and criticism --- Technique

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Autobiography. --- Diaries. --- History --- Letter writing. --- Letters. --- Oral history. --- Methodology.

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The Second World War is often seen as a period of emancipation, because of the influx of women into paid work, and because the state took steps to relieve women of domestic work. This study challenges such a picture. The state approached the removal of women from the domestic sphere with extreme caution, in spite of the desperate need for women's labour in war work. Women's own preferences were frequently neglected or distorted in the search for a compromise between production and patriarchy. However, the enduring practices of paying women less and treating them as an inferior catego

Women employees --- World War, 1939-1945 --- History. --- Social aspects.

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De auteurs baseren zich op dagboeken, memoires, brieven en opgenomen interviews van Britse vrouwen, waarin zij getuigen over hun werkervaringen tijdens beide wereldoorlogen. De Eerste Wereldoorlog gaf aan vele vrouwen aanvankelijk een gevoel van vrijheid en optimisme doordat ze zich nuttig konden maken voor hun land. Dat stond echter in schril contrast met de daaropvolgende bitterheid toen zij na 1918 hun jobs in de fabrieken weer moesten afstaan aan mannen. Het was “like being let out of a cage”, zoals de titel van het boek zegt. Reeds bij de mobilisatie in 1914 was er verzet tegen de massale intrede van vrouwen in de fabrieken. Onervaren werkkrachten moesten nu het werk van specialisten leren en heel wat mannelijke ingenieurs weigerden hen machines te laten bedienen en ingewikkelde productieprocessen te laten beheren. De Britse overheid moest ingrijpen en sloot daartoe akkoorden met de vakbonden, waarin bepaalde garanties werden afgedwongen, veelal in het nadeel van de vrouw. Diezelfde overheid bleek ook weinig aandacht te hebben voor de combinatie arbeid-gezin. Hoe vrouwen met zulke tegenwerkingen en hinderpalen omgingen, is de focus van dit boek.

Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- History --- Book --- First World War --- anno 1910-1919 --- anno 1940-1949 --- Great Britain