Publication: Labour/Le Travail
Publication Date: 22-SEP-07
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Author: Frank, Christopher J.
Article Excerpt
Krista Cowman and Louise A. Jackson, eds., Women and Work Culture: Britain c. 1850-1950 (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing 2005)
WOMEN AND WORK CULTURE: Britain, c.1850-1950, edited by Krista Cowman and Louise A. Jackson, is a collection of essays developed from a 2002 conference of the same title. A difficult challenge faced by editors of such books is bringing unity and cohesion to essays that cover a wide range of research questions over an extended time frame. In this instance, however, Cowman and Jackson use the edited collection format to its best advantage with essays that address common themes and issues, while at the same time providing a sampling of the richness and diversity of the scholarship being done in the broad field of the cultural history of women's work in Britain. Their useful introduction and clear organization help to draw out the common threads running though each of the essays. Some of the similar themes touched upon by the book's twelve contributors include the variety of contested meanings carried by the different types of work done by women, the identities created by women in association with work, and the ways in which women negotiated masculine cultural practices and discourses related to work in order to create feminine or feminist space. The assortment of historical and interdisciplinary methods and approaches...
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