| Description |
1 online resource (166 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Setting the scene -- The girl in the background -- The modern girl -- The imaginative consumer -- Time space and respectability -- Afterword. |
| Summary |
Filling a long-standing gap both in women's history and in the material history of class culture, this book is a unique and necessary reassessment of the social and cultural scene during the inter-war period in England. By combing over the everyday practices of working-class girls in 1920s and 30s England, including a sharp focus on Bermondsey south-east London and oral testimony from women who grew up in the period, Milcoy demonstrates the persistence and ingenuity with which these teenagers gained access to the commercial leisure culture of the day, from hairstyles and fashionable dress to films, music, and dances. She shows how this access had a startling ripple effect, transforming the way young women rehearsed and contested their identities so that play, rather than work, became the primary mechanism for defining subjectivity and constructing femininity. When the Girls Come Out to Play is a refreshing and nuanced take on the social and cultural history of England between the World Wars. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Teenage girls -- Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
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Teenage girls. |
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Great Britain. |
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Social conditions. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Working class -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
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Working class. |
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History. |
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Leisure -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
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Leisure. |
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Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Milcoy, Katharine. When the girls come out to play. London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017 9781474279598 (DLC) 2016051167 (OCoLC)948336372 |
| ISBN |
9781474279611 (electronic book) |
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1474279619 (electronic book) |
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9781474279604 (ePDF) |
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1474279600 (ePDF) |
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9781474279628 |
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1474279627 |
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9781474279598 (hardcover) |
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1474279597 (hardcover) |
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9781474279581 (paperback) |
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1474279589 (paperback) |
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