Women, Social Leadership, and the Second World War: Continuities of Class

by James Hinton

The associational life of middle-class women in twentieth-century England has been largely ignored by historians. During the Second World War women's clubs, guilds, and institutes provided a basis for the mobilization of up to a million women, mainly housewives, into unpaid part-time work. Women's Voluntary Service, which was set up by the Government in 1938 to organize this work, generated a rich archive of reports and correspondence which provide...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199243298
• ISBN13: 9780199243297
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.4"