Laurie Taylor discusses the latest social science research.
25 October 2006
WOMEN, WORK & YOUTH CULTURE BETWEEN THE WARS In her book Young Women, Work, And Family In England 1918-1950, Dr Selina Todd Lecturer in History at the University of Warwick traces the complex interaction between class, gender, and locale that shaped young women's roles at work and home between the end of the First World War and the beginning of the fifties.
While contemporaries commonly portrayed young women as pleasure-loving leisure consumers Selina argues that the world of work was in fact central to their life experiences and examines how social and economic history are woven together in the working, family, and social lives of the maids, factory workers, shop assistants, and clerks who made up the majority of England's young women.
THE WILDLIFE DOCUMENTARY Laurie Taylor looks at how the camera, high production values and the BBC Natural History unit have shaped our relationship with the natural world.
Dr Nils Lindahl-Elliot, author of Mediating Nature and Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies, University of the West of England discusses how natural history documentaries mediate our relationship with the nature alongside Dr Meryl Aldridge, Reader in the Sociology of News Media, School of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Nottingham.
Additional information:
Dr Selina Todd, Lecturer in History at the University of Warwick at the Department of history, University of Warwick
Young Women, Work, And Family In England 1918-1950
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199282757
Dr Nils Lindahl-Elliot, Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences, School of Cultural Studies, University of the West of England
Mediating Nature
by Nils Lindahl Elliot
Publisher: Routledge,an imprint of Taylor & Francis Books Ltd
ISBN: 0415393256
Dr Meryl Aldridge, Associate Professor and Reader in Sociology (of News Media) at the School of Sociology & Social Policy, Centre for Social Work, University Of Nottingham
