This compelling and stimulating book explores the gendered social history of students in modern Britain.
From the privileged youth of Brideshead Revisited, to the scruffs at 'Scumbag University' in The Young Ones, representations of the university undergraduate have been decidedly male. But since the 1970s the proportion of women students in universities in the UK has continued to rise so that female undergraduates now outnumber their male counterparts.
Drawing upon wide-ranging original research including documentary and archival sources, newsfilm, press coverage of student life and life histories of men and women who graduated before the Second World War, this text provides rich insights into changes in student identity and experience over the past century.
The book examines :
For students of gender studies, cultural studies and history, this book will have meaningful impact on their degree course studies.
| ISBN: | 9780415358187 |
| Publication date: | 14th December 2005 |
| Author: | Carol Dyhouse |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 288 pages |
| Series: | Women's and Gender History |
| Genres: |
Philosophy and theory of education European history |
This compelling and stimulating book explores the gendered social history of students in modern Britain.
From the privileged youth of Brideshead Revisited, to the scruffs at 'Scumbag University' in The Young Ones, representations of the university undergraduate have been decidedly male. But since the 1970s the proportion of women students in universities in the UK has continued to rise so that female undergraduates now outnumber their male counterparts.
Drawing upon wide-ranging original research including documentary and archival sources, newsfilm, press coverage of student life and life histories of men and women who graduated before the Second World War, this text provides rich insights into changes in student identity and experience over the past century.
The book examines :
For students of gender studies, cultural studies and history, this book will have meaningful impact on their degree course studies.
Students features in the following genres: Philosophy and theory of education, European history
Students is available in Hardback, Paperback
Students was written by Carol Dyhouse and published by Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis
Students has 288 pages
Yes it is part of Women's and Gender History series
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