Title Graduate women and work in Wales, 1880-1939 : nationhood, networks and community / Beth Jenkins

Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022] ©2022

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 257 pages) : illustrations Contents Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- 1.1 Nationhood -- 1.2 Community -- 1.3 Networks -- 1.4 Sources, Approaches and Aims -- Chapter 2: Educating a Nation? -- 2.1 Proportion of Women Students at the Welsh University Colleges: An Overview -- 2.2 Early Women Students: Class, Funding and Geographical Origins -- 2.3 The 1889 Welsh Intermediate Education Act and the Social Composition of Students -- 2.4 Medical Students, Girls' Science Education and the First World War 2.5 Women Students 1914-1939: Ethnicity, Geographical Origins and Class -- 2.6 Funding, Families and the Interwar Depression -- 2.7 Coalfield Communities and the Miners' Welfare National Scholarship Scheme -- Chapter 3: College Cultures -- 3.1 Coeducation, Gendered Spaces and Scandals -- 3.2 Women's Residential Halls -- 3.3 Collective Identities, Gender and Feminism -- 3.4 Nationhood, War and Reform -- 3.5 The Industrial Depression, Working-Class Students and the Social Service Movement -- Chapter 4: Graduate Employment and Unemployment -- 4.1 The First World War -- 4.2 New Opportunities? 4.3 On the Margins of Academia -- 4.4 Marriage, Motherhood and Paid Work -- 4.5 The Interwar Depression and Graduate Unemployment -- Chapter 5: In the Community -- 5.1 Universities, Local Communities and the Social Service Movement -- 5.2 Professional Positions, Voluntary Work and Academic Research -- 5.3 Marriage, Motherhood and Work in the Community -- Chapter 6: Networks -- 6.1 Educational Networks and the Women's Movement -- 6.2 Interwar Associational Cultures -- 6.3 Occupational Networks -- 6.4 National Networks -- Chapter 7: Conclusion Appendix A: Number of Men and Women Students at the University of Wales -- Appendix B: Social Class of Women Students from Register Samples -- Appendix C: Career Destinations of Women from Student Samples -- Sources and Bibliography -- Manuscript Primary Sources -- Printed Primary Material -- Newspapers and Periodicals -- Works of Reference -- Secondary Works -- Index Summary This book traces the social backgrounds, educational experiences and subsequent lives of women who attended the university colleges in Wales from their inception to the outbreak of the Second World War. Using a sample of 2,000 graduates, the book foregrounds the experience of working-class women and critically assesses the claim of social inclusivity built around education in Wales. It charts changes and continuities in womens career prospects; explores graduates relationship with the communities in which they studied, lived, and worked; and, finally, examines the extensive networks which underpinned their personal and professional lives. Beth Jenkins is a Visiting Fellow and former British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Essex, UK Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed November 22, 2022) Subject Women college graduates -- Wales -- History -- 19th century Women college graduates -- Wales -- History -- 20th century College graduates -- Wales -- History -- 19th century College graduates -- Wales -- History -- 20th century Women -- Employment -- Wales -- History -- 19th century Women -- Employment -- Wales -- History -- 20th century Women -- Wales -- Social conditions -- 19th century Women -- Wales -- Social conditions -- 20th century College graduates Women college graduates Women -- Employment Women -- Social conditions Wales Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9783031079412 3031079418

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