{"product_id":"a-womans-place-9780631147541","title":"A Womans Place","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Woman''s Place\u003c\/i\u003e is based upon Elizabeth Roberts''s interviews with 160 elderly people from the towns of Barrow, Lancaster and Preston. They recall their memories of family life as children, youths and adults in the period between the last decade of the nineteenth century and the outbreak of the Second World War. \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Woman''s Place\u003c\/i\u003e shows working-class women to be conscious of, and secure in, the separate, private sphere of home and family, with little feeling of male oppression, but more of class oppression and economic injustice to man and woman alike. A woman''s key place within the family as budget manager and domestic decision taker was widely recognized. It was, however, a position won at great cost. The hazards of childbirth, the grueling physical routines of washing, cleaning and cooking, the necessity of undertaking part-time, or (in Preston especially) full-time paid employment to boost the family''s meager income, were the coin with which that role was bought. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Their talk is lively, and it's a wonder to read the voices of people who do not usually get to talk for themselves.\" (The Smart Set, 7 April 2011)\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eA Woman's Place\u003c\/i\u003e is a book to which all future historians of the working-class will be indebted.\" \u003ci\u003eTimes Higher Education Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eA Woman's Place\u003c\/i\u003e will be read with interest for the illuminating accounts of working-class experiences, but equally for Dr Roberts' erudite gloss on her material ... Her achievement is to record working-class lives as they were lived and her success in doing so establishes her as one of the most accomplished practitioners of oral history.\" \u003ci\u003eEconomic History Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"A highly readable picture of the lives of working-class women through childhood, adolescence, work, leisure, marriage (and more work), family and sexual relations ... and motherhood. Through them emerges a picture of a wider working-class reality, which is all the more vivid for its sensitivity to the ambiguous and the unexpected.\" \u003ci\u003eNew Society\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This is a first-rate book for both expert historian and general reader; it deserves wider circulation.\" \u003ci\u003eWomen's Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Her two volumes appear austere but tell an absorbing tale. I hope she is collecting material for a third.\" \u003ci\u003eTimes Educational Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"... one of the best social histories of Britain before 1940.\" \u003ci\u003eThe Sunday Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements. \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Growing Up.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHome Life.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSchool.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Youth, Work and Leisure.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Status of Young Workers in the Family.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEmployers and Employees.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Work Ethic.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eYoung Women at Work. Leisure.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCourting and Pre-Marital Pregnancy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Marriage.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSexual Relations and Attitudes to Family Size.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFamily Limitation: Knowledge and Methods.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePregnancy and Childbirth.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePower Relationships within Marriage.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Effect of Social Change.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Women as Housewives and Managers.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWorking-class Homes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFamily Income.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBalancing the Budget.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWere Working Class Women Successful Household Managers?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Families and Neighbours.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Extended Family.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNeighbours and Neighbourhoods.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAppendices.\u003c\/b\u003e .\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Population of the Three Towns, 1981-1931.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Women's Occupations, 1891-1931.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Percentages of Women at Work, 1891-1931.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Wage Indices for 1905.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Respondents' Biographies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSelect Bibliography.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403385774423,"sku":"9780631147541","price":37.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780631147541.jpg?v=1730483308","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-womans-place-9780631147541","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}