Visionary Women and Visible Children, England 1900-1920

Berry Mayall is Professor of Childhood Studies at the UCL Institute of Education, UK. She has conducted many research studies on childhood and has written extensively on sociological approaches to childhood.

“A rich and detailed study of the relationship between women and children in the early years of the twentieth century. It sheds important new light on the work of the women’s movement beyond the suffrage campaign, and, through its interesting discussion of personal testimony material, on women and children’s own agency in understanding their lives.” (Angela Davis, History of Education, February, 2019)

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Childhood and the Women’s Movement 1900-1920.- Chapter 3. Economics of Childhood: Home and Neighbourhood.- Chapter 4. Experiencing Elementary School.- Chapter 5. Women, Children and the Great War.- Chapter 6. After the Great War.