Jolly Good Reading for Girls: Discourses of Library Work and Femininity in Career Novels

Reference Type Journal Article
Year of Publication
1999
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Women's History Review
Volume
8
Issue
3
Pagination
489-504
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Explores the feminisation of library work in the United Kingdom in the 1950s. Simultaneously males were given higher level positions, leading to the masculinization of more senior library roles.