The Captive Wife

1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-64185-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 196 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 387 g

Reihe: Routledge Classics

In 1965, at the age of twenty-nine, the young sociologist Hannah Gavron took her own life. A year later, the book based on the research she carried out for her thesis was published as The Captive Wife. Based on first-hand accounts of the lives of working-class and middle-class women in Kentish Town in London, it was one of the earliest works of British, sociological feminism and has since become a feminist classic.

Arguing that motherhood stripped women of independence as it often brought an end to paid work, Gavron explores how their values and aspirations as women came into conflict with the traditional role they had to play as mothers.

Written in simple prose and fair-minded in its approach, it became an inspirational book for many mothers, feminists and activists seeking equality for women and remains a vital book today.

This Routledge Classics edition includes a new Foreword by Ann Oakley.

Zielgruppe

General, Postgraduate, Undergraduate Advanced, and Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gavron, Hannah

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword to the Routledge Classics Edition Ann Oakley Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction Part 1: Social and Historical Background 1. Legal and Political Changes 2. General Changes in the Structure and Patterns of Family Life 3. The Family Today 4. Changing Patterns of Work 5. A Summary Part 2: The Survey 6. Background of the Samples 7. Housing 8. Marriage 9. Mothers and Children 10. The Running of the Home 11. Social Contacts 12. Children and Leisure 13. Mothers and Work Part 3: Conclusion and Proposals 14. Conflict and Ambivalence 15. Results of the Survey Summarised 16. A Final Analysis and Proposals for the Future Appendices of Methods I. Design of the Interview II. Schedule III. Selection of the Samples Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

Hannah Gavron was a brilliant, promising British sociologist who died at the age of twenty-nine. Her only book, The Captive Wife, was published the year after her death in 1965. Her son Jeremy Gavron's A Woman on the Edge of Time is an acclaimed account of his mother's life and suicide and was the subject of a BBC radio drama.