Gender, Rhetoric and Regulation: Women's work in the Civil by Helen Glew
By Helen Glew
Drawing on quite a lot of archival assets - together with coverage records, alternate union documents, women's circulate crusade literature and staff' own testimony - this is often the 1st book-length examine of women's public carrier employment during this interval. It examines 3 points in their operating lives - inequality of pay, the wedding bar and inequality of chance - and demonstrates how some distance wider cultural assumptions approximately womanhood formed rules in the direction of women's employment and stories. students and scholars with pursuits in gender, British social and cultural heritage and labour background will locate this a useful text.
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