This Working-Day World

Originally published in 1994, This Working-Day World is lively collection of essays presenting a social, political and cultural view of British women's lives in the period 1914-45. The volume describes women's activities in many different areas, ranging from the weekly wash to the rescue of child refugees.

List of Illustrations, Acknowledgements, Introduction, Section I: Social History, 1. The Weekly Wash, 2. A 'Trade Union for Married Women': The Women's Co-operative Guild 1914-1920, 3. The Women's Institute Movement - The Acceptable Face of Feminism?, 4. A Woman's Right to Work? The Role of Women in the Unemployed Movement Between the Wars, 5. The Culture of Femininity in Women's Teacher Training Colleges 1914-1945, 6. The Diary of Doreen Bates: Single Parenthood and the Civil Service, Section II: Political History, 7. Gendering Patriotism: Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst and World War One, 8. England's Cassandras in World War One, 9. Women in the British Union of Fascists, 1932-1940, 10. British Feminists and Anti-Fascism in the 1930s, 11. Working with the 'Kindertransports', 12. An Austrian Refugee in Wartime Manchester, Section III: Cultural History, 13. 'A Fair Field and No Favour': Women Artists Working in Britain Between the Wars, 14. British Women Surrealists - Deviants from Deviance?, 15. Hilda Matheson and the BBC, 1926-1940, 16. 'Nothing is Impracticable for a Single, Middle-Aged Woman with an Income of her Own': The Spinster in Women's Fiction of the 1920s, 17. Chloe, Olivia, Isabel, Letitia, Harriette, Honour, and Many More: Women in Medicine and Biomedical Science 1914-1945, Notes on Contributors, Appendix: Archive Resources for Research on 20th Century British Women, Index.