Description: The Mass-Observation organisation was set up in 1937 with the aim of recording everyday life in Britain. Dorothy Sheridan has plundered its astonishingly rich archives to put together this anthology of women's experience in the Second World War. What was this experience? How far did it go to liberate women? Was it the opportunity that so many expected or was it simply six years of deprivation, hard work and pain? Wartime Women allows us to explore these questions through the writings of women living through the war years. Dorothy Sheridan has chosen extracts from the whole range of Mass-Observation material including research reports, letters, dairies and detailed questionnaires. The range of contributors is enormous from a fish and chip shop worker in Birmingham to Irish immigrant munitions factory workers, young women welders in Yorkshire and a seventeen-year-old schoolgirl in Essex. A unique document offering unrivalled insight into women's minds and lives during the Second World War.
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Topic: Womens Issues, Britain, Homefront, World War II
Format: Paperback
Book Title: Wartime Women
Type: Anthology
Subjects: Biographies & True Stories
Author: Dorothy Sheridan
Publication Year: 2000
Language: English
Publisher: Phoenix Press
267 pages: 9 1/4" x 6"
