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From spinster to career woman
| Subtitle | middle-class women and work in Victorian England |
| Publish Place | Montreal |
| Publisher | McGill-Queen's University Press |
| Publish Year | 2019 |
| Pages | 218p. |
| ISBN/ISSN | 9780773557079 |
| Illustration | ill. |
| Language | English/Engels |
- Shelfmark
- GR BR 5 2019
| Description | The late Victorian period brought a radical change in cultural attitudes toward middle-class women and work. Anxiety over the growing disproportion between women and men in the population, combined with an awakening desire among young women for personal and financial freedom, led progressive thinkers to advocate for increased employment opportunities. The major stumbling block was the persistent conviction that middle-class women - 'ladies' - could not work without relinquishing their social status. . .Through media reports, public lectures, and fictional portrayals of working women the book traces advocates' efforts to alter cultural perceptions of women, work, class, and the ideals of womanhood. Focusing on the archetypal figures of the hospital nurse and the typewriter, Young analyzes the strategies used to transform a job perceived as menial into a respected profession and to represent office work as progressive employment for educated women. |
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