Katherine Holden
Biographic Data
| ID | 3990913 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katherine Holden |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katherine |
| FAMILY NAME | Holden |
| SIGNATURE | HOLDEN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the West of England |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Odd Women? Spinsters, lesbians and widows in British women’s fiction, 1850s–1930s, by Emma Liggins
"Odd Women? Spinsters, lesbians and widows in British women’s fiction, 1850s–1930s, by Emma Liggins." Women's History Review, 26(4), pp. 669–670
Blood, Contract and Intimacy: History and Practice with Leonore Davidoff
Modern Motherhood: Women and Family in England 1945–2000
Showing Them How: The cultural reproduction of ideas about spinsterhood in interwar England
This article uses psychoanalytic theory to suggest how ideas about spinsterhood were transmitted to young girls in mid-twentieth-century England, drawing upon children's fiction and women's autobiographical writings. Spinster stereotypes were often invoked in these sources to portray unmarried women as ‘bad’ maternal substitutes in contrast to an exciting, adventurous masculine ‘other’. Spinsters in children's fiction could also be ‘good’ mothers…
Other people's children: Single women and residential childcare in mid-20th century England
This article compares the conditions of service for unmarried women working as house mothers in institutions run by a local authority and a voluntary association (the National Children's Homes) in mid-20th-century England. It explores the different organizational structures within which these women were employed and examines tensions relating to class, gender, occupational and marital status and emotional labour. It concludes that there were conf…
Imaginary Widows: Spinsters, Marriage, and the “Lost Generation” in Britain after the Great War
This article argues that the status of spinster was associated with widowhood in the decades after the First World War in Britain, an association that is still active in our collective memory. Widely publicized census statistics suggesting that a whole generation of young men perished during the war led to the beliefs that an accompanying generation of women had lost lovers and fiancés, would be unable to marry, and were therefore deprived of the…
Nature takes no notice of morality: Singleness and Married Love in Interwar Britain 1
This article draws attention to the dominance of marriage during the twentieth century and the strain this institution was, and still is, under. This is achieved by focusing upon the single as a problematic category in the context of interwar Britain through an examination of the writings of Marie Carmichael Stopes, one of the leading experts on marriage, and her single correspondents. There are clear contradictions in Stopes's writings, which sh…
Heartland and periphery: Local, National and Global Perspectives on Women's History
The articles in this special collection were first presented as papers at the Women's History Network Annual Conference, held at the University of Bath in September 2000. In selecting a theme for the conference, it seemed particularly important, at the start of a new millennium, to be as inclusive as possible and to reflect the most recent developments in the field of women's history. Conference participants were encouraged to question definition…
Women alone: Spinsters in England, 1660-1850
International Encyclopedia of Women's Suffrage
The well known story of women's struggle for the vote in Britain and America has obscured the importance of suffrage movements in other parts of the world. This encyclopedia is the first to cover women's suffrage from a thoroughly international perspective.
Pictures from the Margins of Marriage: Representations of Spinsters and Single Mothers in the mid‐Victorian Novel, Inter‐war Hollywood Melodrama and British Film of the 1950s and 1960s
The oral history reader
Pictures from the Margins of Marriage: Representations of Spinsters and Single Mothers in the mid‐Victorian Novel, Inter‐war Hollywood Melodrama and British Film of the 1950s and 1960s
Imaginary Widows: Spinsters, Marriage, and the “Lost Generation” in Britain after the Great War
This article argues that the status of spinster was associated with widowhood in the decades after the First World War in Britain, an association that is still active in our collective memory. Widely publicized census statistics suggesting that a whole generation of young men perished during the war led to the beliefs that an accompanying generation of women had lost lovers and fiancés, would be unable to marry, and were therefore deprived of the…
Nature takes no notice of morality: Singleness and Married Love in Interwar Britain 1
This article draws attention to the dominance of marriage during the twentieth century and the strain this institution was, and still is, under. This is achieved by focusing upon the single as a problematic category in the context of interwar Britain through an examination of the writings of Marie Carmichael Stopes, one of the leading experts on marriage, and her single correspondents. There are clear contradictions in Stopes's writings, which sh…
Pictures from the Margins of Marriage: Representations of Spinsters and Single Mothers in the mid‐Victorian Novel, Inter‐war Hollywood Melodrama and British Film of the 1950s and 1960s
The oral history reader
International Encyclopedia of Women's Suffrage
The well known story of women's struggle for the vote in Britain and America has obscured the importance of suffrage movements in other parts of the world. This encyclopedia is the first to cover women's suffrage from a thoroughly international perspective.
Nature takes no notice of morality: Singleness and Married Love in Interwar Britain 1
This article draws attention to the dominance of marriage during the twentieth century and the strain this institution was, and still is, under. This is achieved by focusing upon the single as a problematic category in the context of interwar Britain through an examination of the writings of Marie Carmichael Stopes, one of the leading experts on marriage, and her single correspondents. There are clear contradictions in Stopes's writings, which sh…
Heartland and periphery: Local, National and Global Perspectives on Women's History
The articles in this special collection were first presented as papers at the Women's History Network Annual Conference, held at the University of Bath in September 2000. In selecting a theme for the conference, it seemed particularly important, at the start of a new millennium, to be as inclusive as possible and to reflect the most recent developments in the field of women's history. Conference participants were encouraged to question definition…
Women alone: Spinsters in England, 1660-1850
Imaginary Widows: Spinsters, Marriage, and the “Lost Generation” in Britain after the Great War
This article argues that the status of spinster was associated with widowhood in the decades after the First World War in Britain, an association that is still active in our collective memory. Widely publicized census statistics suggesting that a whole generation of young men perished during the war led to the beliefs that an accompanying generation of women had lost lovers and fiancés, would be unable to marry, and were therefore deprived of the…
Other people's children: Single women and residential childcare in mid-20th century England
This article compares the conditions of service for unmarried women working as house mothers in institutions run by a local authority and a voluntary association (the National Children's Homes) in mid-20th-century England. It explores the different organizational structures within which these women were employed and examines tensions relating to class, gender, occupational and marital status and emotional labour. It concludes that there were conf…
Showing Them How: The cultural reproduction of ideas about spinsterhood in interwar England
This article uses psychoanalytic theory to suggest how ideas about spinsterhood were transmitted to young girls in mid-twentieth-century England, drawing upon children's fiction and women's autobiographical writings. Spinster stereotypes were often invoked in these sources to portray unmarried women as ‘bad’ maternal substitutes in contrast to an exciting, adventurous masculine ‘other’. Spinsters in children's fiction could also be ‘good’ mothers…
Modern Motherhood: Women and Family in England 1945–2000
Blood, Contract and Intimacy: History and Practice with Leonore Davidoff
Odd Women? Spinsters, lesbians and widows in British women’s fiction, 1850s–1930s, by Emma Liggins
"Odd Women? Spinsters, lesbians and widows in British women’s fiction, 1850s–1930s, by Emma Liggins." Women's History Review, 26(4), pp. 669–670
Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (10 works) · History (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Library science (4 works)