caa a22 4500 378900366 CHVBK 20180305123516.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161128e200401 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1515/zaa.2004.52.1.19 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)gruyter-10.1515/zaa.2004.52.1.19 Krahé Peter ‘Living on a woman': Zum Verständnis der Geschlechterrollen in sozialkritischer Literatur der Zwischenkriegszeit [Elektronische Daten] [Peter Krahé] This article examines conflicts of gender relations during the interwar period in Britain. It centres on a discussion of Walter Greenwood's successful novel Love on the Dole (1933) as a representative case study of working-class coping strategies in the face of unemployment and dearth. While the interwar period has sometimes ambiguously been named The Age of Illusion, even The Long Week-end, the 1930s with their consistently high unemployment rates in the industrial north have been termed Devil's Decade, Pink Thirties, or, quite plainly, The Hungry Thirties. Gender relations could not remain unaffected by these constraints on everyday life: Whereas it had been a commonly shared view in the working classes that the husband had to be the bread-winner and the wife's place was at home, these established gender roles could no longer be taken for granted. Increasingly, they were reversed: Men who lost their jobs stayed at home, while their wives went out to work to support the family. As a result, notions of gender identity, self-respect, and morality had to be redefined. British re-armament and the outbreak of the Second World War created a fundamentally different prospect by mobilizing the entire workforce of men and women alike. The resulting full employment provided a precondition for Labour's postwar welfare state, which brought with it a return to traditional gender roles by the 1950s © 2014 by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik De Gruyter 52/1(2004-01), 19-34 52:1<19 2004 52 zaa https://doi.org/10.1515/zaa.2004.52.1.19 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1515/zaa.2004.52.1.19 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Krahé Peter NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik De Gruyter 52/1(2004-01), 19-34 52:1<19 2004 52 zaa CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-gruyter