Mid-Century Women's Writing: Disrupting the Public/Private Divide
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Mid-Century Women's Writing: Disrupting the Public/Private Divide
By (Author) Melissa Dinsman
Edited by Megan Faragher
Edited by Ravenel Richardson
Manchester University Press
Manchester University Press
1st August 2024
United Kingdom
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers
Gender studies: women and girls
820.99287
Physical Properties
Hardback
256
Width 156mm, Height 234mm
Description
The traditional narrative of the mid-century (1930s-60s) is that of a wave of expansion and constriction, with the swelling of economic and political freedoms for women in the 1930s, the cresting of women in the public sphere during the Second World War, and the resulting break as employment and political opportunities for women dwindled in the 1950s when men returned home from the front. But as the burgeoning field of interwar and mid-century womens writing has demonstrated, this narrative is in desperate need of re-examination. Mid-century women's writing: Disrupting the public/private divide aims to revivify studies of female writers, journalists, broadcasters, and public intellectuals living or working in Britain, or under British rule, during the mid-century while also complicating extant narratives about the divisions between domesticity and politics.
Author Bio
Melissa Dinsman is Associate Professor of English at York College, CUNY
Megan Faragher is Professor of English at Wright State UniversityLake Campus
Ravenel Richardson is Director of Research Expansion and Development at Case Western Reserve University
