Mid-Century Women’s Writing: Disrupting the Public/Private Divide
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Book
Description
The traditional narrative of the mid-century (1930s-60s) is that of a wave of expansion and constriction, with the swelling of economic and political freedoms for women in the 1930s, the cresting of women in the public sphere during the Second World War, and the resulting break as employment and political opportunities for women dwindled in the 1950s when men returned home from the front. But as the burgeoning field of interwar and mid-century women's writing has demonstrated, this narrative is in desperate need of re-examination. Mid-century women's writing: Disrupting the public/private divide aims to revivify studies of female writers, journalists, broadcasters, and public intellectuals living or working in Britain, or under British rule, during the mid-century while also complicating extant narratives about the divisions between domesticity and politics.
Publication Date
2024
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Keywords
English Literature--20th Century; Women authors; Gender identity in literature; British literature--21st century--History and criticism
Disciplines
European History | Literature in English, British Isles | Women's Studies
Repository Citation
Faragher , M., Dinsman , M., & Richardson , R. (2024). Mid-Century Women’s Writing: Disrupting the Public/Private Divide. : Manchester University Press.
DOI
978-1526169778
