teenage working-class girls' leisure between the wars
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Milcoy, Katharine
- Publish Year
- 2017
- Shelfmark
- GR BR 4 2017 - B
- Thesaurus
- vrije tijd, dagelijks leven, meisjes, sociale klasse, interbellum, vrouwelijkheid, Verenigd Koninkrijk, 1920-1929, 1930-1939, 20e eeuw
- Description
- By combing over the everyday practices of working-class girls in 1920s and 30s England, including a focus on Bermondsey south-east London and oral testimony from women who grew up in the period, the author demonstrates the persistence and ingenuity with which these teenagers gained access to the commercial leisure culture of the day, from hairstyles and fashionable dress to films, music, and dances. She shows how this access had a startling ripple effect, transforming the way young women rehearsed and contested their identities so that play, rather than work, became the primary mechanism for defining subjectivity and constructing femininity.