Eileen Janes Yeo
Biographic Data
| ID | 368101 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eileen Janes Yeo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eileen Janes |
| FAMILY NAME | Yeo |
| SIGNATURE | YEO E J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sussex |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 58 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
J. F. C. Harrison
I was one of John Harrison’s first graduate students at the University of Wisconsin in 1961. Wisconsin was a strange choice for me: a famous centre for American history where perversely I intended to specialize in Tudor England! But it turned out to be a lucky choice because when I began working with John, I found my real intellectual home. Both the University climate and John’s practice of the social and labour history of modern Britain helped m…
Asa Briggs (1921-2016)
In 1969, when Asa Briggs was in the middle of his ‘reign’ at the University of Sussex, I was in a minibus taking Sussex students to the first Ruskin History Workshop. Both were connected in a way because Asa played a significant role in democratizing educational life and in shaping historical study. Rather than explore Briggs’s contribution to social history (a job Rohan McWilliam has done very well elsewhere).1 I take a more personal approach he…
Roundtable on Asa Briggs’s Legacy
The Boy is the Father of the Man’
This article explores the persistent panic over male working-class youth by taking soundings at fifty-year intervals to assess the models of proper and deviant masculinity being proposed by influential groups ranging from voluntary workers to civil servants to social scientists. It considers whether the pattern of anxiety is as much the problem that needs to be understood as the adolescent behaviour it purports to describe, particularly where rep…
Labour History and Culture
This thematic section ably demonstrates how cultural perspectives in labour history can produce key insights which are strikingly valuable not only for labour analysts but for activists. The authors here deliberately refuse a crude Marxist model of a weighty economic base and a derivative superstructure which they feel has narrowed the focus of traditional labour history to paid (mainly male) economic activity in the workplace and has led to a di…
The creation of ‘motherhood’ and Women's responses in britain and france, 1750–1914
This article argues that an ideology of privatised motherhood became increasingly important in the master public narratives of Western history and that motherhood became a highly contested concept both in Britain and France as a result. It shows how women were prioritised in their capacity as mothers, particularly in nation-state building with its focus on population politics, and in middle-class formation. Then it explores how groups of women, w…
Women and Market Societies
Consumption and women's politics - past experiences modernizing domestic spaces - liberating women? cultural representations and resistances crisis in Western market societies problematic transitions to market societies in the East
Women and social action in victorian and edwardian england
Social motherhood and the sexual communion of labour in British Social Science, 1850-1950
This article explores the way in which women both accepted and subverted the sexual division of labour in middle-class social science between 1850 and 1950. For women facing a mid-nineteenth century crisis in femininity, the kind of social science embodied in the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (1857-86), offered a promising pathway into the public sphere. This article examines how women helped to develop the two key conc…
Popular Culture and Class Conflict, 1590 - 1914
This special issue of Labour/Le Travail explores the complex relationship between popular culture and class conflict in England between 1590 and 1914. The collection of essays examines how leisure and cultural activities were shaped by and, in turn, influenced the evolving dynamics of class relations. Contributors analyze a range of cultural forms, including festivals, sports, music, and literature, to understand how they served as sites of both …
Popular Culture and Class Conflict, 1590-1914
Christianity in Chartist Struggle 1838-1842
Journal Article CHRISTIANITY IN CHARTIST STRUGGLE 1838–1842 Get access Eileen Yeo Eileen Yeo University of Sussex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 91, Issue 1, May 1981, Pages 109–139, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/91.1.109 Published: 01 May 1981
The Unknown Mayhew
Popular Culture and Class Conflict, 1590 - 1914
This special issue of Labour/Le Travail explores the complex relationship between popular culture and class conflict in England between 1590 and 1914. The collection of essays examines how leisure and cultural activities were shaped by and, in turn, influenced the evolving dynamics of class relations. Contributors analyze a range of cultural forms, including festivals, sports, music, and literature, to understand how they served as sites of both …
Popular Culture and Class Conflict, 1590-1914
Christianity in Chartist Struggle 1838-1842
Journal Article CHRISTIANITY IN CHARTIST STRUGGLE 1838–1842 Get access Eileen Yeo Eileen Yeo University of Sussex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 91, Issue 1, May 1981, Pages 109–139, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/91.1.109 Published: 01 May 1981
The Boy is the Father of the Man’
This article explores the persistent panic over male working-class youth by taking soundings at fifty-year intervals to assess the models of proper and deviant masculinity being proposed by influential groups ranging from voluntary workers to civil servants to social scientists. It considers whether the pattern of anxiety is as much the problem that needs to be understood as the adolescent behaviour it purports to describe, particularly where rep…
The creation of ‘motherhood’ and Women's responses in britain and france, 1750–1914
This article argues that an ideology of privatised motherhood became increasingly important in the master public narratives of Western history and that motherhood became a highly contested concept both in Britain and France as a result. It shows how women were prioritised in their capacity as mothers, particularly in nation-state building with its focus on population politics, and in middle-class formation. Then it explores how groups of women, w…
The Unknown Mayhew
Christianity in Chartist Struggle 1838-1842
Journal Article CHRISTIANITY IN CHARTIST STRUGGLE 1838–1842 Get access Eileen Yeo Eileen Yeo University of Sussex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 91, Issue 1, May 1981, Pages 109–139, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/91.1.109 Published: 01 May 1981
Popular Culture and Class Conflict, 1590-1914
Popular Culture and Class Conflict, 1590 - 1914
This special issue of Labour/Le Travail explores the complex relationship between popular culture and class conflict in England between 1590 and 1914. The collection of essays examines how leisure and cultural activities were shaped by and, in turn, influenced the evolving dynamics of class relations. Contributors analyze a range of cultural forms, including festivals, sports, music, and literature, to understand how they served as sites of both …
Social motherhood and the sexual communion of labour in British Social Science, 1850-1950
This article explores the way in which women both accepted and subverted the sexual division of labour in middle-class social science between 1850 and 1950. For women facing a mid-nineteenth century crisis in femininity, the kind of social science embodied in the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (1857-86), offered a promising pathway into the public sphere. This article examines how women helped to develop the two key conc…
Women and social action in victorian and edwardian england
Women and Market Societies
Consumption and women's politics - past experiences modernizing domestic spaces - liberating women? cultural representations and resistances crisis in Western market societies problematic transitions to market societies in the East
The creation of ‘motherhood’ and Women's responses in britain and france, 1750–1914
This article argues that an ideology of privatised motherhood became increasingly important in the master public narratives of Western history and that motherhood became a highly contested concept both in Britain and France as a result. It shows how women were prioritised in their capacity as mothers, particularly in nation-state building with its focus on population politics, and in middle-class formation. Then it explores how groups of women, w…
Labour History and Culture
This thematic section ably demonstrates how cultural perspectives in labour history can produce key insights which are strikingly valuable not only for labour analysts but for activists. The authors here deliberately refuse a crude Marxist model of a weighty economic base and a derivative superstructure which they feel has narrowed the focus of traditional labour history to paid (mainly male) economic activity in the workplace and has led to a di…
The Boy is the Father of the Man’
This article explores the persistent panic over male working-class youth by taking soundings at fifty-year intervals to assess the models of proper and deviant masculinity being proposed by influential groups ranging from voluntary workers to civil servants to social scientists. It considers whether the pattern of anxiety is as much the problem that needs to be understood as the adolescent behaviour it purports to describe, particularly where rep…
Roundtable on Asa Briggs’s Legacy
Asa Briggs (1921-2016)
In 1969, when Asa Briggs was in the middle of his ‘reign’ at the University of Sussex, I was in a minibus taking Sussex students to the first Ruskin History Workshop. Both were connected in a way because Asa played a significant role in democratizing educational life and in shaping historical study. Rather than explore Briggs’s contribution to social history (a job Rohan McWilliam has done very well elsewhere).1 I take a more personal approach he…
J. F. C. Harrison
I was one of John Harrison’s first graduate students at the University of Wisconsin in 1961. Wisconsin was a strange choice for me: a famous centre for American history where perversely I intended to specialize in Tudor England! But it turned out to be a lucky choice because when I began working with John, I found my real intellectual home. Both the University climate and John’s practice of the social and labour history of modern Britain helped m…
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