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142:, which is cited as an early example of the emergent British feminist literature and a noted early sociological study on women and work. It was a qualitative sociological analysis of narrative accounts of working- and middle-class married women's lives, and has been called one of the "classic examples of feminist interpretation of housework". She argued that women tended to leave paid work after childbirth and that motherhood stripped women of independence, bringing their values and aspirations as 'New' women into conflict with the traditional role they were having to play as mothers. In the view of 118:
on "The position and opportunities of young mothers: progression or retrogression: a study of the difficulties confronting young mothers in the contemporary family based on a comparative study of working class and middle class families". After completing her doctorate, Gavron took up a lectureship at
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wrote that Gavron was an "optimistic pioneer of modern feminism" who "stood as a role model for many of us, trying to make our way in the male-dominated world of social science. She even at times appears in the guise of a cultural metaphor
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and many others – a woman torn apart by her position on the edge of time, by those same dilemmas of being female which form the subject matter of her work and writing". In 2015, Gavron's son Jeremy published his memoirs of her,
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and printer, but who had then only just started training in printing, having eschewed a legal career for the time being (the same year he married Hannah, he had been
72:. She was registered at birth as Ann, but always used the name in the form of Hannah, both privately and professionally. Aged sixteen, she became a student at the 523: 543: 73: 363: 272: 87: 236: 498: 309: 465: 384: 218: 412: 252: 146:, this study meant that Fyvel (Gavron) was one of a number of researchers in the 1950s and early 1960s (such as 528: 143: 107: 103: 513: 493: 508: 120: 288: 538: 488: 123:. On 14 December 1965, she locked herself in the kitchen of her neighbour's house in Jackson's Lane, 99: 51: 35: 64: 102:). Shortly after marrying, Gavron graduated from RADA, but stayed in education; she went on to 359: 95: 84: 451: 420: 379: 213: 185: 155: 23: 310:"Jeremy Gavron: 'My mother was a woman who looked for solutions. Suicide was a solution'" 163: 159: 482: 80: 69: 314: 175: 353: 426: 190: 151: 147: 55: 167: 416: 128: 111: 91: 39: 54:
in 1936, the daughter of Mary (Kirschner), who was from South Africa, and
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The year after her death, Gavron's thesis was published as
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Ann Oakley, "Optimistic pioneer of modern feminism",
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The History of British Women's Writing, 1970–present
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Hebrew
Mandatory Palestine
sociologist
British Mandate of Palestine
T. R. Fyvel
Zionist
Tribune
George Orwell
Royal Academy of the Dramatic Arts
Robert Gavron
Labour
peer
barrister
called to the bar
University of Oxford
Bedford College, University of London
undergraduate
doctorate
thesis
Hornsey School of Art
Highgate
gas oven
committed suicide
Helen McCarthy
Nancy Seear
Viola Klein
Ferdynand Zweig
Judith Hubback
Pearl Jephcott
Ann Oakley

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