Visible Histories
Women and Environments in a Post-War British City
Description
In this period, women brought about change in the interrelated areas of demography, domestic community work, and wage work, altering the environments in which family life and wage work were carried out. Changes in women's living and working environments led to the development of a series of new organizational networks in the areas of fertility control, childbirth, childcare, and wage work. These changes, as described by the women and men who lived them, are evaluated in terms of their potential to alter and extend the feminist tradition and the social environments through which people organize to create the structure of their daily lives.
Reviews
"makes a useful original contribution to the field of historical geography [and will] also be of interest to urban and women's historians and to sociologists: the subject it examines -- the environments working-class women have built, changed and responded to since the end of World War II -- is virtually unexplored by practitioners of the three above named fields." Kathleen E. Crone, Department of History, University of Windsor.