Women in Twentieth-Century Britain

An illustrated history of women's lives, work, culture and citizenship through the twentieth century. Beginning with a contextualising discussion of the nature of women's history and the way it has developed as a subject for study over the course of this century, the book is thereafter divided into four sections. Part One examines the experience of girlhood, marriage and the ageing process. The nature of women's work, both paid and unpaid is the subject of the second section. Crime, domestic violence and leisure are explored in Part Three and the final section discusses state and citizenship with chapters charting the chronology of the women's movement and state and social policy towards women. Designed to be the core textbook for British women's twentieth-century history courses, it will also provide historical context and background for those on women's studies and related interdisciplinary courses.