Wartime women : a Mmss observation anthology, 1937-45 / edited by Dorothy Sheridan.

• Why I joined Mass Observation -- The Munich Crisis, 1938 -- War is declared, September 1939 -- War comes to a Norfolk village : The diary of Muriel Green, 1939 -- Evacuation -- MO Report No. 26 : Women in wartime, January 1940 -- Muriel Green's diary for 1940 -- Changing routines, October 1940 -- Driving in London, October-December 1940 -- MO Report No. 520 : Women and morale, December 1940 -- MO Report No. 615 : An appeal to women, March 1941 -- The diary of Amy Briggs, a Leeds nurse, 1941 -- The volunteer war worker, Bradford, October 1941 -- MO Report No. 1151 : The demand for day nurseries, March 1942 -- War factory, Aston, July 1942 -- Welders' letters, 1942 -- Joining the WAAF : the first three months, 1943 -- MO Bulletin : Women in public houses, February 1943 -- Four sisters, Kent, March 1944 -- Married women and work, January 1944 -- VE Day, May 1945 -- A weaver's diary for the General Election of 1945 -- Mrs. Last's New Year's Resolutions.

• Based upon the astonishingly rich archives left over from the Mass Observation surveillance set up in 1937, this anthology of women's writings reveals how social attitudes were irrevocably altered by women's experiences in World War Two. 

Ämnesord

Andra världskriget 1939-1945  (sao)

Kvinnor  (sao)

Grymheter  (sao)

World War, 1939-1945  -- Women -- Great Britain. (LCSH)

World War, 1939-1945  -- Social aspects -- Great Britain. (LCSH)

World War, 1939-1945  -- Personal narratives, British. (LCSH)

Women and war  -- Great Britain. (LCSH)

Women  -- Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 20th century. (LCSH)

Manners and customs.  (fast)

Social aspects.  (fast)

Women.  (fast)

Women and war.  (fast)

Women  -- Social conditions. (fast)

Atrocities  (LCSH)

World War, 1939-1945  (LCSH)

Women  (LCSH)

Storbritannien  (sao)

Great Britain  -- Social life and customs -- 1918-1945. (LCSH)

Great Britain.  (fast)

1900 - 1999  (fast)

Genre

Personliga berättelser  (saogf)

Institutionsnamn

Mass-Observation (Firm)

Mass-Observation (Firm)

Konferensnamn

World War (1939-1945)

Klassifikation

D810.W7 (LCC)

QH541.5.J8 (LCC)

941.084082 (DDC)

Ke (kssb/8 (machine generated))