A Woman's Place (1975): A Pioneering Model of Writing Woman's History

10.6420/DHJHS.199907.0265

Shu-Fen Tsai

Bowlbyism ； equal pay ； femininity ； feminisation of poverty ； illegitimacy ； lone mothers ； pop culture ； sexual liberation ； women's history ； Women's Lib

東華人文學報

1期（1999 / 07 / 01）

265 - 301

英文

This paper is to reevaluate a neglected but significant historical work, A Woman's Place by Ruth Adam (1907-1977). Besides the early debates of writing women's history raised in the late 1970s and 1980s, major women's issues resurfacing from the 1910s to 1970s, such as women and work, sex and sexual roles, education and welfare, birth control and illegitimacy, women's professions and fashions, the feminisation of poverty, will be examined to illustrate the methodology and critical vistas initiated by Ruth Adam, whose insights of women's movement proved influential to later British feminist historians.