Women and Families: An Oral History 1940 - 1970ISBN: 978-0-631-19613-6
Paperback
304 pages
April 1995, Wiley-Blackwell
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"Many oral historians succumb to the temptation of allowing quotations from interviews to 'speak for themselves'. Roberts supports the rich detail extracted from approximately one hundred oral history interviews with a thorough use of social statistics, public records and the voluminous secondary literature concerned with social and family life in postwar Britain. This foundation provides additional authority to her conclusions. Nonetheless, Roberts's liberal use of interview materials puts a human face on postwar working-class experience. Our sisters, mothers, aunties and grandmothers speak to us from the pages of Women and Families. This is an extremely readable, satisfying book which is also destined to become a social history classic." Lucinda McCray Beier, Illinois State University
"Her two volumes appear austere but tell an absorbing tale. I hope she is collecting material for a third." Times Educational Supplement
"Women and Families is a powerful work. It will be of great significance not only to historians but also to social commentators who are looking for responses to the problems of the 1990s ... The strength of Elizabeth Roberts's research is in emphasising the place of working-class women. Their place is not in the margins. It is at the hub of working-class life." Social History Society Bulletin
"This is a strong book that deserves a wide readership. Lucid, informative, and interesting, Roberts carefully weaves a fascinating story, threading her non-obtrusive analysis through the richness of the oral data. It is oral history at its best." Economic History Review