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100 1 _aAbrams, Lynn.
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245 1 0 _aFeminist lives :
_bwomen, feelings, and the self in post-war Britain
_cLynn Abrams
264 1 _aOxford :
_bOxford University Press, Incorporated,
_c2024.
264 4 _c©2024.
300 _a1 online resource (272 pages)
336 _aText
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337 _aComputermedien
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338 _aOnline Resource
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500 _aE-Book-ProQuest / Fernzugriff nach Registrierung möglich
505 0 _aCover -- Feminist Lives: Women, Feelings, and the Self in Post-War Britain -- Copyright -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- 1: Revolution of the Self -- Introduction -- The Post-War Landscape -- Feminist Encounters -- Spaces for the Self -- Feminism and Subjectivity -- The Emotional Self -- The Expressive Self -- Feminist Lives -- 2: Mothers and Daughters -- Introduction -- Mothers: Self-sacrificeto Self-realization -- Finding the Real Me -- Aspirations and Expectations -- What Daughters Thought -- Conclusions -- 3: Fashioning the Self -- Introduction -- Dedicated Followers of Fashion -- Home-made -- Ticket to Ride -- Conclusions -- 4: Intimate Selves -- Introduction -- Histories of Intimacy and Liberation -- Imagining Intimate Futures -- Spaces, Experimentation, and Constraint -- Choice and Autonomy -- Conclusions -- 5: Settling Down -- Introduction -- Expectations of Marriage -- Togetherness -- Together but Unequal -- Reclaiming the Self -- Conclusions -- 6: The Expressive Self -- Introduction -- Cynthia's Story -- Unhappy Housewives -- Talking about Feelings -- Researching Women's Feelings -- Spaces for Screaming -- Self-Helpor Just Help? -- Conclusions -- 7: Liberating the Domestic Self -- Introduction -- Stay-at-Home Mothers -- Stepping Stones -- Catalyst for Change -- Challenges of 'Do-It-Yourself' -- Back to Work -- Conclusions -- 8: Caring for the Self -- The Feminist Spectrum -- Self-Care -- Feminist Voices -- Becoming Visible -- Coda -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources -- BBC Written Archives Centre -- British Library -- Glasgow Women's Library -- Medical Research Council, University College London -- National Library of Scotland -- Norfolk Record Office -- UK Data Archive, University of Essex -- Institute of Education Archive, University College London.
505 8 _aUniversity of Glasgow Archives and Special Collections -- Wellcome Collection -- Women's Library, London School of Economics, -- Secondary Sources -- Unpublished -- Index.
520 _aThe story of women growing up in post-war Britain, rejecting the self-sacrifice of their mothers' generation and embracing new ways of living, feeling, and being in the decades before Women's Liberation. They were feminists before feminism, which we see through their descriptions of themselves, their relationships, their feelings, and actions.
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_aGeschlechterrolle
650 7 _2gnd
_aFeminismus
650 7 _2gnd
_aSoziale Situation
651 7 _2gnd
_aGroßbritannien
655 _aFernzugriff
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655 4 _aElectronic books.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_aAbrams, Lynn
_tFeminist Lives
_dOxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated,c2024
_z9780192896995
856 4 0 _uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/maxweberstiftung-ebooks/detail.action?docID=7294727
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