The making of a modern female body: beauty, health and fitness in interwar Britain [0.03%]
论现代女性身体的塑造：战间期英国的美容、健康与健身运动
Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska
Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska
In interwar Britain female athleticism, keep-fit classes and physical culture were celebrated as emblems of modernity, and women who cultivated their bodies in the pursuit of beauty, health and fitness represented civic virtue. This article...
Attitudes to abortion in the era of reform: evidence from the Abortion Law Reform Association correspondence [0.03%]
改革时期的堕胎态度：来自堕胎法律改革协会通信的证据
Emma L Jones
Emma L Jones
This article examines letters sent by members of the general public to the Abortion Law Reform Association (ALRA) in the decade immediately before the 1967 Abortion Act. It shows how a voluntary organisation, in their aim of supporting a sp...
Grey Osterud
Grey Osterud
This article considers rural women's place on the land in south-central New York during the first half of the twentieth century. Based on a community history and ethnographic study conducted during the 1980s, the article draws on women's or...
"Birds of passage" or "career" women? Thoughts on the life cycle of the eighteenth-century European servant [0.03%]
"过客"还是“职业人士”？十八世纪欧洲女仆的人生历程思考
Deborah Simonton
Deborah Simonton
Frequently eighteenth-century service is described as a life-cycle stage used to build up the financial wherewithal to set up house. As such it was central to the way youth or girlhood was traversed, and studies of adolescent years rightly ...
Intimacy and the life cycle in the marital relationships of the Scottish elite during the long eighteenth century [0.03%]
十八世纪苏格兰精英阶层婚姻关系中的亲密性与人生历程
Katie Barclay
Katie Barclay
Traditionally marriage has been treated as one step in the life cycle, between youth and old age, singleness and widowhood. Yet an approach to the life cycle that treats marriage as a single step in a person's life is overly simplistic. Dur...
Florence Nightingale a Hundred Years on: who she was and what she was not [0.03%]
纪念南丁格尔百年诞辰：她的贡献与神话
Lynn McDonald
Lynn McDonald
This article reviews Florence Nightingale's work 100 years after her death, based on surviving writing compiled for The Collected Works of Florence Nightingale. Described are her founding of a new profession for women, based on patient care...
"A jazzed and patchwork modern": "future" girls and modern masculinities in the early popular romances of Berta Ruck [0.03%]
“现代爵士拼贴画”：伯塔·拉克早期流行言情小说中的“未来女性”与现代男性形象
Caroline Kanerick
Caroline Kanerick
As a best-selling writer of popular romances during the first half of the twentieth century, Berta Ruck (1878-1978) has been characterised as a producer of 'omelettes of frivolity and sweetness' whose appeal was confined to adolescent girls...
Coming of age under Hitler and Stalin: the everyday life of adolescent girls in occupied Latvia [0.03%]
在纳粹和苏联占领下的拉脱维亚成长：二战时期的少女日常生活
Linda McDowell
Linda McDowell
This article explores the possibility of the continuation of everyday life in occupied Europe through a case study of the lives of twenty-five adolescent girls and young women living in Latvia between 1939 and 1944. Late adolescence is the ...
For better or for worse? The dilemmas of unmarried motherhood in mid-twentieth-century popular British film and fiction [0.03%]
好坏自知：二十世纪中叶英国影视剧中未婚母亲的角色形象之两难境地
Janet Fink
Janet Fink
This article investigates representations of unmarried motherhood in the late 1940s and early 1950s through readings of popular British film and fiction. These sources are used to illustrate contradictions and conflicts in the meanings affo...
Vanessa May
Vanessa May
Through written life stories of lone mothers, this article examines changes in lone motherhood in twentieth-century Finland. While the older life-story writers' narratives are clearly influenced by an 'ethos of survival' and the regulation ...