Nice Girls, Bad Girls, and Bitches: British Women and Gender from the Vote to Thatcher

3 Credits

Explores the words and experiences of British women in a century of rapid social, economic and cultural transformation - when what it meant to be a 'British woman' was itself revolutionized, through decolonization and immigration. We will determine the constraints on women in war and peace, politics, education and paid work, marriage, motherhood and family, and celebrate rebels and non-conformists.