Rebel Women Between the Wars
Breaking Boundaries, 1918–39
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2026
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-9505-0 (ISBN)
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
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An original history of thirteen interwar women who successfully challenged male dominance in a wide range of occupations, from mountaineering to motoring and humanitarian activism. Through their diaries, letters and other personal writings, we see the strategies they used to break free from domesticity and into the active, public world. -- .
An inspiring group biography of thirteen intrepid women who challenged the status quo in interwar Britain.
What did it mean to be a ‘rebel woman’ in the interwar years? Historian Sarah Lonsdale traces the struggles, passions and achievements of a set of fearlessly determined women who stopped at nothing to make their mark in the traditionally masculine environments of mountaineering, politics, engineering and journalism.
From the motorist Claudia Parsons to the ‘star’ reporter Margaret Lane, the mountaineer Dorothy Pilley and the journalist Shiela Grant Duff, the women charted in this book challenged the status quo in all walks of life, alongside writing vivid, eye-witness accounts of their adventures.
Recovering their voices across a range of texts, including novels, poems, journalism and diaries, Rebel women between the wars reveals the inch-by-inch gains these women won through courageous and sometimes controversial acts. -- .
An inspiring group biography of thirteen intrepid women who challenged the status quo in interwar Britain.
What did it mean to be a ‘rebel woman’ in the interwar years? Historian Sarah Lonsdale traces the struggles, passions and achievements of a set of fearlessly determined women who stopped at nothing to make their mark in the traditionally masculine environments of mountaineering, politics, engineering and journalism.
From the motorist Claudia Parsons to the ‘star’ reporter Margaret Lane, the mountaineer Dorothy Pilley and the journalist Shiela Grant Duff, the women charted in this book challenged the status quo in all walks of life, alongside writing vivid, eye-witness accounts of their adventures.
Recovering their voices across a range of texts, including novels, poems, journalism and diaries, Rebel women between the wars reveals the inch-by-inch gains these women won through courageous and sometimes controversial acts. -- .
Sarah Lonsdale is Senior Lecturer in Journalism at City, University of London. She is the author of the books Wildly different (2024) and The Journalist in British Fiction and Film (2016) and writes for the Times Literary Supplement, History Today and the Sunday Times. -- .
Introduction: ‘The women at the gate’
1 Female friendship, work and collaboration
2 Alternative channels
3 Parallel platforms and safe havens
4 Risk-takers
5 Parental influence and family networks
6 Rejecting the feminine
7 Formal networks
8 Explosive engagement
9 Hiding in plain sight
Conclusion
Index -- .
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 7.4.2026 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 14 black & white illustration |
| Verlagsort | Manchester |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 129 x 198 mm |
| Gewicht | 544 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5261-9505-4 / 1526195054 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5261-9505-0 / 9781526195050 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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