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  title info:
    title: Feeling the strain
    sub title: a cultural history of stress in twentieth-century Britain
  name:
    name part: Kirby, Jill
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2019
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 259 pages ; 22 cm.
  abstract: Examining the popular discourse of nerves and stress, this book provides a historical account of how ordinary Britons understood, explained and coped with the pressures and strains of daily life during the twentieth century. It traces the popular, vernacular discourse of stress, illuminating not just how stress was known, but the ways in which that knowledge was produced. Taking a cultural approach, the book focuses on contemporary popular understandings, revealing continuity of ideas about work, mental health, status, gender and individual weakness, as well as the changing socioeconomic contexts that enabled stress to become a ubiquitous condition of everyday life by the end of the century. With accounts from sufferers, families and colleagues it also offers insight into self-help literature, the meanings of work and changing dynamics of domestic life, delivering a complementary perspective to medical histories of stress.
  table of contents: Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Nerves and the nervous: self-help books in the early decades of the twentieth century -- Neurotic tendencies: workplace and suburban neurosis in the interwar period -- "Just nerves!": civilian nerves in the Second World War -- The great strain: domestic troubles in post-war Britain -- The democratisation of stress: popular and personal discourse in the 1960s and 1970s -- The "ruthless years": burn-out and the paradigm of stress -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
  note: Jill Kirby.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-uk---
  subject:
    topic: Stress (Psychology)
    topic: Social aspects
    geographic: Great Britain
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Stress management
    geographic: Great Britain
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    geographic: Great Britain
    topic: Social conditions
    temporal: 20th century
  classification: BF575.S75 K57 2019
  classification: 155.9/042
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Social histories of medicine
  identifier: 1526123290
  identifier: 9781526123299
  identifier: 9781526123312 (ePub ebook)
  identifier: 9781526123305 (PDF ebook)
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 181206
    record change date: 20200113103412.0
    record identifier: in00004113089