The Hairdresser Blues: British Women and the Secondary Modern School, 1946-72
The Hairdresser Blues: British Women and the Secondary Modern School, 1946-72
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理发师布鲁斯：英国妇女和中等现代学校，1946-72
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10.1093/tcbh/hwad048
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发表时间：
2023
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0.9
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Carter L
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作者：
Carter L
在20世纪40年代末到70年代初，英国的大多数少女都上了现代中学。然而，战后教育的意义和经验的历史继续忽视战后女性的这一组成部分，而有利于文法学校的毕业生。本文借鉴了一组58个新挖掘的生活史，从两个战后出生队列研究，以夺回普通妇女谁参加了中等现代学校在英格兰，威尔士和苏格兰之间的c.1957年和c.1963年的观点。纵向资料显示，这些妇女对教育的态度是逐步形成的，跨越了她们的生命历程。美发，这代表了一个干净的愿望，创造性的，和自主的有偿工作，可以平衡与自律，被确定为一个重复出现的主题，在第二现代妇女的证词。这篇文章诊断了具有理发师忧郁症的第二代现代女性，这是一种概括了她们集体期望、失望和遗憾的提法，这些都是她们在20世纪60年代和70年代初密切相关的学校教育和有偿工作经历中产生的。这些妇女的教育态度是由累积认识到，中等现代教育可能甚至不能让你成为一个理发师。这篇文章最终表明，对于普通女性来说，更常见的是理发师的忧郁，而不是“错过”了著名的文法学校，这使中等现代学校政治化。
Between the late 1940s and the early 1970s, the majority of teenage girls in Britain attended secondary modern schools. Yet, histories of the meaning and experience of postwar education continue to neglect this constituent of postwar women, favouring grammar-school leavers. This article draws upon a set of fifty-eight newly mined life histories from two postwar birth cohort studies to recapture the perspectives of ordinary women who attended secondary modern schools in England, Wales, and Scotland between c.1957 and c.1963. The longitudinal sources show that these women developed their attitudes to education gradually, across their lifecourses. Hairdressing, which stood for a desire for clean, creative, and autonomous paid work that could be balanced with domesticity, is identified as a reoccurring theme in the testimonies of secondary modern women. The article diagnoses secondary modern women with the hairdresser blues, a formulation that encapsulates their collective expectations, disappointments, and regrets born out of their closely interlinked experiences of schooling and paid work across the 1960s and early 1970s. These women’s educational attitudes were defined by the cumulative realization that a secondary modern education might not even be able to make you into a hairdresser. The article ultimately suggests that it was more often the hairdresser blues rather than ‘missing out’ on the prestigious grammar school that politicized secondary modern schools for the ordinary women who attended them.