Feeling the strain (eBook)

A cultural history of stress in twentieth-century Britain

Jill Kirby (Autor)

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2019
272 Seiten
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-2331-2 (ISBN)

Infos

By examining the popular and vernacular discourse of stress, the book traces the ways in which stress became a ubiquitous condition of everyday life by the end of the twentieth century in Britain.

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Examining 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. -- .

Autor

Jill Kirby is a Lecturer in the School of History of Art, History and Philosophy at the University of Sussex

Inhalt

Introduction
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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.9.2019
• Reihe/Serie: Social Histories of Medicine
• Verlagsort: Manchester
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Studium ► 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) ► Med. Psychologie / Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Schlagworte: 20th century • Britain • Culture • Domestic • Everyday • History • nerves • Self-Help • Stress • Work
• ISBN-10: 1-5261-2331-2 / 1526123312
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5261-2331-2 / 9781526123312