Revisioning the History of Girls and Women in Britain in the Long 1950s

Tinkler, Penny; Spencer, Stephanie; Langhamer, Claire

doi:10.1080/09612025.2015.1123020

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“…Both young women fully utilized the mobility options open to them. Gillian Caldwell began her diary almost 30 years after Annie Rudolph, arguably when British society was changing rapidly (Brooke 2001;Marwick 2003;Thomas 2008;Tinkler et al 2017;Todd 2005), but in many respects her everyday mobility mirrored that of young women in earlier generations. Initially her remote rural location in the English Lake District restricted how she traveled but, like Annie in London, her everyday travel options widened when she was in Edinburgh.…”

Section: Mobility In the Mid-twentieth Centurymentioning

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Young Women on the MoveBritain circa 1880–1950

Pooley

2021

Soc. sci. hist.

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Travel is an essential part of everyday life for most people, and it inevitably brings inconvenience at times, but women have often experienced particular and distinctive constraints and harassments while traveling that may inhibit or reduce their mobility. However, we know relatively little in detail about how, why, and how much women traveled in the past. This article provides new evidence about female mobility in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain by analyzing the daily movements that were recorded in the personal diaries of nine young women. The diary entries show that all the women traveled frequently both alone and with others, used a variety of transport technologies that were available at the time, and rarely recorded incidents that caused them concern or alarm. Mobility was not only essential for carrying out everyday activities but it was also central to the development of friendships and, especially, courting. Both social class and location did have some influence on the ways in which the young women traveled, on their freedom to travel alone, and on the inconveniences they faced. However, overall, the similarities between the experiences of the nine diarists were much greater than the differences. Although it is not possible to generalize widely from just nine accounts, these diaries do provide new insights into female mobility in the past.

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Section: Mobility In the Mid-twentieth Centurymentioning

confidence: 99%

Young Women on the MoveBritain circa 1880–1950

Pooley

2021

Soc. sci. hist.

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Motherhood at Table in Post-War Britain

Waddilove

2024

Eating Cultures in Children’s Literature

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Reading Production and Culture

Ormrod¹

2018

Girlhood Studies

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In this article I explore the production of teen girl comics such as Marilyn, Mirabelle, Roxy and Valentine in the promotion of pop music and pop stars from 1955 to 1960. These comics developed alongside early pop music and consisted of serial and self-contained picture stories, beauty and pop music articles, advice columns, and horoscopes. Materiality is a key component of the importance of comics in the promotional culture in a media landscape in which pop music was difficult to access for teenage girls. I analyze the comics within their historical and cultural framework and show how early British pop stars were constructed through paradoxical discourses such as religion, consumerism, and national identity to make them safe for teen girl consumption. The promotion of these star images formed the foundation for later pop music promotion and girl fan practices.

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Revisioning the History of Girls and Women in Britain in the Long 1950s

Cited by 3 publications

References 4 publications

Young Women on the MoveBritain circa 1880–1950

Young Women on the MoveBritain circa 1880–1950

Motherhood at Table in Post-War Britain

Reading Production and Culture

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