Despite the First World War (WWI) challenging women’s traditional sphere of work (the home) as well as Britain’s class structure, domestic service remained the largest employer of women and girls until the end of the Second World War. Why, given the reluctance of working-class women to return to domestic service after WWI, did so many take up ‘hated domestic service’ in the decade following the war?1 WWI increased working-class households’ reliance on women’s income—whether obtained through employment or unemployment benefits. While others have shown the role of state coercion in women’s employment in domestic service in the aftermath of WWI, this article highlights the extent to which working-class families were complicit in that coercion. As many British families were deprived of male breadwinners as a result of the war, some pushed their daughters to work as servants as it was one job ‘that any girl could get’.2Others turned to the occupation as a means of protecting the ‘moral health’ of a daughter, where they considered it to be in danger.3 Drawing upon a range of oral history testimonies, this article examines the role of working-class families in ensuring that domestic service remained an important feature of working-class women’s and girls’ lives throughout the 1920s.
{"title":"‘I Don’t Want Anything Like That’: The Coercion of British Women and Girls into Domestic Service, 1918–1928","authors":"Elmarí Whyte","doi":"10.22459/lfhj.26.09","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22459/lfhj.26.09","url":null,"abstract":"Despite the First World War (WWI) challenging women’s traditional sphere of work (the home) as well as Britain’s class structure, domestic service remained the largest employer of women and girls until the end of the Second World War. Why, given the reluctance of working-class women to return to domestic service after WWI, did so many take up ‘hated domestic service’ in the decade following the war?1 WWI increased working-class households’ reliance on women’s income—whether obtained through employment or unemployment benefits. While others have shown the role of state coercion in women’s employment in domestic service in the aftermath of WWI, this article highlights the extent to which working-class families were complicit in that coercion. As many British families were deprived of male breadwinners as a result of the war, some pushed their daughters to work as servants as it was one job ‘that any girl could get’.2Others turned to the occupation as a means of protecting the ‘moral health’ of a daughter, where they considered it to be in danger.3 Drawing upon a range of oral history testimonies, this article examines the role of working-class families in ensuring that domestic service remained an important feature of working-class women’s and girls’ lives throughout the 1920s.","PeriodicalId":376853,"journal":{"name":"Lilith: A Feminist History Journal","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114913591","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘Laugh and Grow Fat’: Resistance, Complicity, Fat Bodies and Community Amongst Rural Women in Interwar Western Australia, 1934–1939","authors":"J. Matheson","doi":"10.22459/lfhj.26.06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22459/lfhj.26.06","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":376853,"journal":{"name":"Lilith: A Feminist History Journal","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115720578","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Importance of Feminist History in a Global Pandemic","authors":"Rachel Harris, Michelle Staff","doi":"10.22459/lfhj.26.00","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22459/lfhj.26.00","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":376853,"journal":{"name":"Lilith: A Feminist History Journal","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122595329","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Religious Dress and the Making of Women Preachers in Australia, 1880–1934","authors":"Kerrie Handasyde","doi":"10.22459/lfhj.26.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22459/lfhj.26.05","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":376853,"journal":{"name":"Lilith: A Feminist History Journal","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115718948","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Women’s Politics as Radical Politics: Reconceptualising Women’s Historical and Contemporary Political Practices with the Work of Luce Irigaray","authors":"B. Eslick","doi":"10.22459/lfhj.26.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22459/lfhj.26.04","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":376853,"journal":{"name":"Lilith: A Feminist History Journal","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116060118","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The representation of women in galleries informs perceptions of women in society. Fieldwork conducted in Australian museums since 2017 has highlighted the discord between understandings of the historical role and autonomy of Australian women and the accurate embodiment of their stories in exhibition spaces. Museum exhibitions are imbued with qualitative cultural information and meaning led by curatorial intent, but also inflected with visitormade meaning. Subtle nuances of language and physicality in curatorial and exhibition design communicate messages, overt or subliminal, to audiences who carry pre-conceived cultural understandings about the world around them. This article addresses how curatorial intent and visitor interpretation produces understandings of Australian womanhood within museum exhibitions, and ways in which the methodology of displays can be adjusted to more accurately portray these women’s autonomous voices and experiences. ‘In this country, there are more statues of animals than there are of real Australian women’, wrote Tracey Spicer in an editorial in The Sydney Morning Herald in September 2017.1 Spicer targeted the physical representation, including language, used to commemorate real (non-fictional, non-royal) women, who have been publicly cast as statues across Australia, and around the Western world.2 She further reflected that women are severely underrepresented, in their own right, in public memorialisation in Australia’s 1 Tracey Spicer, ‘Why Aren’t More Women Immortalised in Stone?’, Sydney Morning Herald, 29 September 2017, www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/tracey-spicer-why-arent-more-women-immortalisedin-stone-20170928-gyqm59.html.
{"title":"Body and Language: Enlivening Exhibitions of Colonial Women in Australian Museums","authors":"T. Church","doi":"10.22459/lfhj.26.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22459/lfhj.26.02","url":null,"abstract":"The representation of women in galleries informs perceptions of women in society. Fieldwork conducted in Australian museums since 2017 has highlighted the discord between understandings of the historical role and autonomy of Australian women and the accurate embodiment of their stories in exhibition spaces. Museum exhibitions are imbued with qualitative cultural information and meaning led by curatorial intent, but also inflected with visitormade meaning. Subtle nuances of language and physicality in curatorial and exhibition design communicate messages, overt or subliminal, to audiences who carry pre-conceived cultural understandings about the world around them. This article addresses how curatorial intent and visitor interpretation produces understandings of Australian womanhood within museum exhibitions, and ways in which the methodology of displays can be adjusted to more accurately portray these women’s autonomous voices and experiences. ‘In this country, there are more statues of animals than there are of real Australian women’, wrote Tracey Spicer in an editorial in The Sydney Morning Herald in September 2017.1 Spicer targeted the physical representation, including language, used to commemorate real (non-fictional, non-royal) women, who have been publicly cast as statues across Australia, and around the Western world.2 She further reflected that women are severely underrepresented, in their own right, in public memorialisation in Australia’s 1 Tracey Spicer, ‘Why Aren’t More Women Immortalised in Stone?’, Sydney Morning Herald, 29 September 2017, www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/tracey-spicer-why-arent-more-women-immortalisedin-stone-20170928-gyqm59.html.","PeriodicalId":376853,"journal":{"name":"Lilith: A Feminist History Journal","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122488080","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Beyond the Pale: White women, racism and history [Book Review]","authors":"Fiona Paisley","doi":"10.5860/choice.30-1119","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.30-1119","url":null,"abstract":"Review(s) of: Beyond the Pale: White women, racism and history, by Vron Ware, Verso; London, 1992, $39.95.","PeriodicalId":376853,"journal":{"name":"Lilith: A Feminist History Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126952046","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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