In search of the new woman : middle-class women and work in Britain, 1870-1914 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Sutherland, Gillian (Author)
Corporate Author:	EBSCOhost
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Subjects:	Women > Great Britain > Social conditions > 19th century. Women > Great Britain > Social conditions > 20th century. Middle class women > Great Britain > Social conditions > 19th century. Middle class women > Great Britain > Social conditions > 20th century. Women employees > Great Britain > History > 19th century. Women employees > Great Britain > History > 20th century. Women white collar workers > Great Britain > Social conditions > 19th century. Women white collar workers > Great Britain > Social conditions > 20th century. Great Britain > Social conditions > 19th century. Great Britain > Social conditions > 20th century. Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. 'A sort of bogey whom no-one has ever seen'? The nature of the search; 2. 'All that she sees before her... is teaching'; formal schooling and its opportunities; 3. 'The exercise of what may be termed her maternal faculties'; public service and 'caring' occupations; 4. 'Impossible for a lady to remain a lady'; art, literature and the theatre; 5. 'The real social divide existed between those who... dirtied hands and face and those who did not': women white collar workers (I); 6. 'A beggarly makeshift, but for me it was wealth beyond price': women white collar workers (II); 7. Ladies and women; 8. Some conclusions: degrees of freedom; Sources and select bibliography.