Women and Smoking since 1890
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9740485 |
|---|---|
| Authors | S Bruley (University of Portsmouth, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 125 |
| Issue | 513 |
| Pages | 491-492 |
| Publication date | 2010-03-24 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The English Historical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-8266 • E-ISSN: 1477-4534 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/ehr/ceq007 |
| OpenAlex | W1967637213 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
The recent rise of cultural history has opened up the subject of smoking as a gendered social practice to historians. Rosemary Elliot's interesting monograph tracks the changing nature of women and smoking from the 1890s to the present. While tobacco smoking has a long history in Britain, it appears that the cigarette only made its appearance after the Crimean War. It quickly became associated with military masculinity and therefore located firmly within the male domain. When a small number of intellectual or leisured society women began smoking hand-made Egyptian or Turkish cigarettes in the 1890s it was associated with emancipation and the ‘new woman’. By the First World War, smoking was regarded as a necessity for men and the habit spread to larger sections of the female population. From the mid-1920s women's smoking became a visible aspect of popular culture, facilitated by the rise of mass-produced cigarettes. Women's magazines, and portrayals of women in popular cinema, emphasised links between women's smoking, heterosexual femininity, intimacy, luxury and sophistication. Anti-smoking activists raised concerns about the effects of smoking on women's reproductive capacity, but this was largely ignored
Emancipation · Femininity · Masculinity · Political science · Population · Social science · Sociology · Sophistication · Turkish · Demography · Gender Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · History · Law
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,29 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2021 (13) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |