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Double Lives: A History of Working Motherhood

Autor Helen McCarthy
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 apr 2021
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2021Shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2021Longlisted for the HWA Non-Fiction Crown 2021'Fabulous' -The Times'A milestone in women's history' -Observer'Groundbreaking ... a fascinating read' -HeraldIn Britain today, three-quarters of mothers are in employment and paid work is an unremarkable feature of women's lives after childbirth. Yet a century ago, working mothers were in the minority, excluded altogether from many occupations, whilst their wage-earning was widely perceived as a social ill. InDouble Lives, Helen McCarthy accounts for this remarkable transformation and the momentous consequences it has had for Britain. Recovering the everyday worlds of working mothers, this groundbreaking history forces us not only to re-evaluate the past, but to ask anew how current attitudes towards mothers in the workplace have developed and how far we have to go.'Impressive and nuanced' -Guardian'Brilliant' -Literary Review
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781408870754
ISBN-10: 1408870754
Pagini: 560
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 40 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Publishing
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Helen McCarthy appears regularly on radio programmes such asWoman's Hourto champion women's stories throughout history. The lively and topical subject matter ofDouble Liveswill guarantee extensive review coverage and a high level of media interest

Notă biografică

Helen McCarthy is University Lecturer in Modern British History at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of St John's College. Her first book wasThe British People and the League of Nationsand her second book,Women of the World: The Rise of the Female Diplomat, won Best International Affairs Book at the Political Book Awards 2015. @HistorianHelen

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A fabulous new cultural history of working motherhood over the past 180 years . It is truly Big History and Helen McCarthy has rightly made mothers' feelings and desires her central theme ... McCarthy, measured but sympathetic, has done for working mothers what the historian David Kynaston did for the 1950s
"There are no typical lives," Helen McCarthy writes in her impressive and nuanced study. Each is unique. But the best history writing, like hers, shows how representative the individual life is . McCarthy's is an economic and social history, but she also wants to give "shade and texture" to what has been thought and said about working mothers. In this she succeeds magnificently
Helen McCarthy does a brilliant job of tracking the way attitudes to combining work and motherhood in the UK have changed from the nineteenth century to the present
Groundbreaking . A fascinating read
Impeccably referenced . For anyone interested not just in female employment, but in the labour market generally, it will be a valuable resource . McCarthy's impressive mining of contemporary sources brings one face to face with grinding toil, inadequate diets, and terror of illness
This is an important book .Double Livesis a forceful reminder that attitudes to working mothers change abruptly and that politics, not nature, will decide the future of female employment
Authoritative in scope and calmly judged, but with an ear for voices and an eye for detail,Double Livesis the history we have long wanted of a subject still freighted with emotion and misunderstanding
Carefully researched, stylishly written and highly entertaining. The story is rich with female pioneers. McCarthy's "women of the world" stand as a reminder that, for many women, ours is a world which has not yet been won
Vivid and engaging. Complexities come out beautifully in the lives recovered in this book
As McCarthy eloquently argues in this important book full of brilliant vignettes, fighting to the top is usually harder for a woman