- Publisher: Bloomsbury
- Year: 2021
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 565pp
- Illustrated: Yes
- Dimensions: 197x127mm
- Condition: New
- Weight: 0.4kg
- ISBN: 9781408870754
- Product code: 541782
Double Lives
A History of Working Motherhood in Modern Britain
Helen McCarthy New Paperback Illustrated
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Encompassing factors such as class, race and the traditional family unit, and highlighting the broad heterogeneity of experiences, Helen McCarthy’s analysis of working motherhood in Britain from the Victorian era to the present day exposes how women have long been sidelined in a discussion centred primarily around male societal norms.
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2021
Shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2021
Longlisted for the HWA Non-Fiction Crown 2021
'Fabulous' - The Times
'A milestone in women's history' - Observer
'Groundbreaking ... a fascinating read' - Herald
In Britain today, three-quarters of mothers are in employment and paid work is an unremarkable feature of women's lives after childbirth. Yet a century ago, working mothers were in the minority, excluded altogether from many occupations, whilst their wage-earning was widely perceived as a social ill. In Double Lives, Helen McCarthy accounts for this remarkable transformation and the momentous consequences it has had for Britain.
Recovering the everyday worlds of working mothers, this groundbreaking history forces us not only to re-evaluate the past, but to ask anew how current attitudes towards mothers in the workplace have developed and how far we have to go.
'Impressive and nuanced' - Guardian
'Brilliant' - Literary Review
Shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2021
Longlisted for the HWA Non-Fiction Crown 2021
'Fabulous' - The Times
'A milestone in women's history' - Observer
'Groundbreaking ... a fascinating read' - Herald
In Britain today, three-quarters of mothers are in employment and paid work is an unremarkable feature of women's lives after childbirth. Yet a century ago, working mothers were in the minority, excluded altogether from many occupations, whilst their wage-earning was widely perceived as a social ill. In Double Lives, Helen McCarthy accounts for this remarkable transformation and the momentous consequences it has had for Britain.
Recovering the everyday worlds of working mothers, this groundbreaking history forces us not only to re-evaluate the past, but to ask anew how current attitudes towards mothers in the workplace have developed and how far we have to go.
'Impressive and nuanced' - Guardian
'Brilliant' - Literary Review
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Encompassing factors such as class, race and the traditional family unit, and highlighting the broad heterogeneity of experiences, Helen McCarthy’s analysis of working motherhood in Britain from the Victorian era to the present day exposes how women have long been sidelined in a discussion centred primarily around male societal norms.
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