Women and Families: An Oral History, 1940-1970 (Family, Sexuality and Social Relations in Past Times) Paperback - 1995 - 1st Edition
by Roberts, Elizabeth
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- Title Women and Families: An Oral History, 1940-1970 (Family, Sexuality and Social Relations in Past Times)
- Author Roberts, Elizabeth
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 304
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Blackwell Publishers, Oxford
- Date 1995-04-06
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- Bookseller's Inventory # 0631196137.G
- ISBN 9780631196136 / 0631196137
- Weight 0.96 lbs (0.44 kg)
- Dimensions 8.96 x 5.95 x 0.88 in (22.76 x 15.11 x 2.24 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects Working class women - England - History -, Working class families - England - History -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 94-20715
- Dewey Decimal Code 305.409
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From the rear cover
This was a period of change, usually seen as progress. People everywhere became better off. Healthcare was provided free and the education of children was universal. This was the first age of the domestic machine, releasing women for employment in paid work. The church, the police, teachers and the state became less sources of authority than of care. Television provided entertainment in the home. Improved methods of contraception emancipated sexuality. But, as Elizabeth Roberts shows, the caring state and the privatized family were also accompanied by a diminished sense of community an neighborliness, and by a loss of confidence in previously accepted standards and values in family relationships and the rearing of children.
Women and Families provides an always fascinating insight into the realities of social change during three crucial decades of English history. Few of the accepted generalizations - concerning the changing roles of men and women, the loss of working-class solidarity, the decline of family and communal life, the effects of high-rise living, and the benefits of healthcare and social welfare - survive the evidence so ably assembled here. This is an important and exciting book: it will be widely read.