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Vera Brittain – A Feminist Life

Autor D Gorham
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 4 mar 1996
This is a biographical study of the English writer and social activist Vera Brittain, (1893-1970). Author of more than twenty books and a successful journalist, Brittain is best known for Testament of Youth. Her autobiographical account is remembered as the most important book of the First World War, written from a woman's perspective. In the interwar decades, Vera Brittain became a staunch advocate of equal rights feminism, an internationalist, and, by the late 1930s, a pacifist. In this book, Deborah Gorham focuses on Vera Brittain's struggles and achievements as a feminist. She contends that in both her public and private life, Brittain was representative of the group of educated middle-class women who brought to fruition the goals of Victorian bourgeois feminism in the years following the Great War.

Drawing on voluminous archival sources and recent feminist scholarship, the author provides an analysis of Vera Brittain which integrates the public and the private, the "personal" and the "political", to illuminate the life, the work and the milieu of this important twentieth-century figure.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780631147152
ISBN-10: 0631147152
Pagini: 350
Dimensiuni: 165 x 240 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.65 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Wiley
Locul publicării:Chichester, United Kingdom

Public țintă

students and professional historians of women′s history and the history of the twentieth century, as well as general readers.

Notă biografică

Deborah Gorham was born in New York, but has lived for many years in Ottawa, Canada, where she is Professor of History at Carleton University and Director of the Pauline Jewett Institute of Women's Studies. She has published numerous articles and books on British and Canadian women's history, including The Victorian Girl and the Feminine Ideal (1982), Up and Doing: Canadian Women and Peace (1990), co-edited with Janice Williamson, and Caring and Curing: Historical Perspectives on Women and Healing in Canada (1994), co-edited with Dianne Dodd.

Descriere

This is a biographical study of the English writer and social activist Vera Brittain, author of Testament of Youth .