Becoming A Woman: And Other Essays in 19th and 20th Century Feminist History
Spanning two decades of research and writing, this volume presents the influential and insightful work of Sally Alexander, one of Britain's most reputed feminist historians.\ Whether analyzing women's factory work, the emergence of the Victorian women's movement, or women's voices during the Spanish civil war, or charting the lives of women in the inter-war years, Alexander's accounts are original and thoughtful. Moving from a discussion of class and sexual difference to a reading of...
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Spanning two decades of research and writing, this volume presents the influential and insightful work of Sally Alexander, one of Britain's most reputed feminist historians.Whether analyzing women's factory work, the emergence of the Victorian women's movement, or women's voices during the Spanish civil war, or charting the lives of women in the inter-war years, Alexander's accounts are original and thoughtful. Moving from a discussion of class and sexual difference to a reading of subjectivity informed by psychoanalysis, Alexander exposes the relationship between memory, history, and the unconscious. Her focus ranges from a descriptive rendering of the 1970's Nightcleaners campaign to a more exploratory account of becoming a woman in 1920's and 30's London.Becoming A Woman offers up a fascinating exploration of important historical moments and of the process of writing feminist history. Booknews This collection of essays by one of Britain's most reputed feminist historians is divided into three sections on women and work, feminism and social movements, and memory and history. Alexander (U. of East London; founding editor, History Workshop Journal) exposes the relationship between memory, history, and the unconscious in discussions on women's factory work, the Victorian women's movement, and psychoanalysis, with an exploratory account of becoming a woman in 1920s and 1930s London. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
AcknowledgementsIntroductionWomen's Work in Nineteenth-Century London: A Study of the Years 1820-60s3'Bringing Women into Line with Men': The Women's Trade Union League: 1874-192157Women's Factory Work in Western Europe75Women, Class and Sexual Difference in the 1830s and '40s: Some Reflections on the Writing of a Feminist History97Equal or Different: the Emergence of the Victorian Women's Movement127Why Feminism? The Women of Langham Place135The Fabian Women's Group: 1908-52149Fabian Socialism and the 'Sex-Relation'159Women's Voices in the Spanish Civil War171'I Have Always Been a Writer' - Yvonne Kapp: Writer and Socialist183Becoming a Woman in London in the 1920s and '30s203Feminist History and Psychoanalysis225Memory, Generation and History: Two Women's Lives in the Inter-War Years231Feminism: History: Repetition - Some Notes and Queries243Adult Learning: Ruskin, 1968-70; The University of East London, 1992249The Night Cleaners: An Assessment of the Campaign257In Defence of 'Patriarchy'271Feminist History275Notes279Index321
\ BooknewsThis collection of essays by one of Britain's most reputed feminist historians is divided into three sections on women and work, feminism and social movements, and memory and history. Alexander (U. of East London; founding editor, History Workshop Journal) exposes the relationship between memory, history, and the unconscious in discussions on women's factory work, the Victorian women's movement, and psychoanalysis, with an exploratory account of becoming a woman in 1920s and 1930s London. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \
