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Tables of Contents for Political and Social Issues in British Women's Ficton, 1928-1968
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgements
viii
Introduction
1
19
Women's Ways of Writing
20
42
`An uproar of voices' in the thirties
28
13
The forties as `a series of transformations'
41
5
`The dangers of insufficient symbolism' after the War
46
6
The `socially determined fiction' of private life in the sixties
52
10
Wars and Rumours of Wars
62
37
Hauntings and forebodings of war in the thirties
67
8
Home and abroad in the War years
75
10
`The post-war': neither war nor peace in the late forties
85
5
Under the shadow of the bomb in the fifties and sixties
90
9
Marginalities of Race and Class
99
46
Race, empire and wage-slaves in the thirties
101
12
Xenophobia, merging and mixing in the forties
113
10
The shifting and changing margins of the fifties
123
11
New voices of the sixties
134
11
Men, Women, Sex and Gender
145
40
Advances and exclusions in the thirties
148
10
The gender paradoxes of the forties
158
8
Domesticity, rebels and victims in the fifties
166
8
The politics of self-actualization and progressive social change: the sixties
174
11
Women in a Changing Society: Conclusion
185
19
Notes
204
25
Primary Sources
229
6
Select Bibliography
235
6
Index
241