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OverviewExamining the popular discourse of nerves and stress, this book provides a historical account of how ordinary Britons understood, explained and coped with the pressures and strains of daily life during the twentieth century. It traces the popular, vernacular discourse of stress, illuminating not just how stress was known, but the ways in which that knowledge was produced. Taking a cultural approach, the book focuses on contemporary popular understandings, revealing continuity of ideas about work, mental health, status, gender and individual weakness, as well as the changing socio-economic contexts that enabled stress to become a ubiquitous condition of everyday life by the end of the century. With accounts from sufferers, families and colleagues it also offers insight into self-help literature, the meanings of work and changing dynamics of domestic life, delivering a complementary perspective to medical histories of stress. -- . Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jill KirbyPublisher: Manchester University Press Imprint: Manchester University Press Dimensions: Width: 13.80cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.463kg ISBN: 9781526123299ISBN 10: 1526123290 Pages: 272 Publication Date: 19 July 2019 Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Nerves and the nervous: self-help books in the early decades of the twentieth century 2 Neurotic tendencies: workplace and suburban neurosis in the interwar period 3 ‘Just Nerves!’: civilian nerves in the Second World War 4 Th e great strain: domestic troubles in post-war Britain 5 The democratisation of stress: popular and personal discourse in the 1960s and 1970s 6 The ‘ruthless years’: burn-out and the paradigm of stress Conclusion Bibliography Index -- .Reviews'[. ] this timely text makes a valuable and enjoyable intervention into the literature on twentieth century Britain. Feeling the Strain will be a valuable resource for gender historians and historians interested in mental health. It marshals a range of revealing source material to inform our historical understanding of a problem that seems, at the present moment, to be ubiquitous and inexorable.' Twentieth Century British History -- . '[... ] this timely text makes a valuable and enjoyable intervention into the literature on twentieth century Britain. Feeling the Strain will be a valuable resource for gender historians and historians interested in mental health. It marshals a range of revealing source material to inform our historical understanding of a problem that seems, at the present moment, to be ubiquitous and inexorable.' Twentieth Century British History -- . Author InformationJill Kirby is Lecturer in History at the University of Sussex Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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