LEADER 03836nam 22007215 450 001 9910431344603321 005 20250610110329.0 010 $a9783030606497 010 $a303060649X 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-60649-7 035 $a(CKB)4100000011665312 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6426752 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-60649-7 035 $a(Perlego)3481396 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC29093100 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011665312 100 $a20201216d2020 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn|008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aMaking Respectable Women $eChanging Moralities, Changing Times /$fby Mary Evans 205 $a1st ed. 2020. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Pivot,$d2020. 215 $a1 online resource (XIV, 108 p. 6 illus., 1 illus. in color.) 311 08$a9783030606480 311 08$a3030606481 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a1. The Context -- 2. Victorian Values -- 3.Making the 'Modern' Woman -- 4. The Right Body -- 5. Judging Women. 330 $a"A fascinating gem of a book on the history of respectability as a form of social control, bursting with historical insights about how women have been judged, and the enduring impacts of cultures of judgement in shaping unequal lives today." Imogen Tyler, Professor and Head of the Department of Sociology, Lancaster University, UK This book studies the ways in which the assessment of being or not being 'respectable' has been applied to women in the UK in the past one hundred and fifty years. Mary Evans shows how the term 'respectable' has changed and how, most importantly, the basis of the ways in which the respectability of women has been judged has shifted from a location in women's personal, domestic and sexual behaviour to that of how women engage in contemporary forms of citizenship, not the least of which is paid work. This shift has important social and political implications that have seldom been explored: amongst these are thegrowing marginalisation of the validation of the traditional care work of women, the assumption that paid work is implicitly and inevitably empowering and the complex ways in which respectability and conformity to highly sexualised conventions about female appearance have been normalised. Making Respectable Women makes use of archive material to show how the changing definition of a moral and social concept can have an impact on both the behaviour and the choices of individuals and the operations of institutional power. It will be of interest to students and scholars across the humanities and social sciences. Mary Evans is Leverhulme Emeritus Professor, Department of Gender Studies, London School of Econimics and Political Science, UK . 606 $aSex 606 $aSocial history 606 $aSocial structure 606 $aEquality 606 $aCommunication 606 $aBiotechnology 606 $aGender Studies 606 $aSocial History 606 $aSocial Structure 606 $aMedia and Communication 606 $aBiotechnology 615 0$aSex. 615 0$aSocial history. 615 0$aSocial structure. 615 0$aEquality. 615 0$aCommunication. 615 0$aBiotechnology. 615 14$aGender Studies. 615 24$aSocial History. 615 24$aSocial Structure. 615 24$aMedia and Communication. 615 24$aBiotechnology. 676 $a305.420941 700 $aEvans$b Mary$f1946-$0867210 702 $aBeach$b Kimberley 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910431344603321 996 $aMaking respectable women$91935670 997 $aUNINA