Author: Church of England. Jamaica. Mothers' UnionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 12
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Report of the Mothers' Union, 1926
Author: Church of England. Jamaica. Mothers' UnionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 12
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Report
Author: Arkansas. Insurance DeptPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 142
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Ban This Filth!
Author: Ben ThompsonPublisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571281508
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 469
Book Description
In 1964, Mary Whitehouse launched a campaign to fight what she called the 'propaganda of disbelief, doubt and dirt' being poured into homes through the nation's radio and television sets. Whitehouse, senior mistress at a Shropshire secondary school, became the unlikely figurehead of a mass movement for censorship: the National Viewers' and Listeners' Association, now Mediawatch-uk. For almost forty years, she kept up the fight against the programme makers, politicians, pop stars and playwrights who she felt were dragging British culture into a sewer of blasphemy and obscenity. From Doctor Who ('Teatime brutality for tots') to Dennis Potter (whose mother sued her for libel and won) to the Beatles - whose Magical Mystery Tour escaped her intervention by the skin of its psychedelic teeth - the list of Mary Whitehouse's targets will read to some like a nostalgic roll of honour. Caricatured while she lived as a figure of middle-brow reaction, Mary Whitehouse was held in contempt by the country's intellectual elite. But were some of the dangers she warned of more real than they imagined? Ben Thompson's selection of material from her extraordinary archive shows Mary Whitehouse's legacy in a startling new light. From her exquisitely testy exchanges with successive BBC Directors General, to the anguished screeds penned by her television and radio vigilantes, these letters reveal a complex and combative individual, whose anxieties about culture and morality are often eerily relevant to the age of the internet. 'A fantastic read . . . I can't recommend it highly enough.' Lauren Laverne, BBC Radio 6 Music
As Wives & Mothers
Author: Mothers' UnionPublisher:
ISBN: 9780859430395
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Governing principles of the Mothers' union
Author: Mothers' UnionMary Sumner
Author: Sue Anderson-FaithfulPublisher: Lutterworth Press
ISBN: 0718845870
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
The founder and president of the Mothers' Union, one of the first and largest women's organisations, Mary Sumner (1828-1921) was an influential educator and a force to be reckoned with in the Church of England of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Using the analytical tools of the sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, Sue Anderson-Faithful locates Mary Sumner's life and thought against social and religious networks in which she was restricted by gender yet privileged by class and proximity to distinguished individuals. This dichotomy is key to understanding the achievements of a woman who both replicated and shaped Victorian attitudes to women's roles in society. To Mary Sumner mission and education meant the propagation of religious knowledge through progressive pedagogy. Her activism was intended to promote social reform at home and nurture the growth of the British Empire with mothers wielding their political power as educators of future citizens. The symbiotic relationship between Church and State concentrated power in the hands of a ruling class with which Mary Sumner identified and which she supported. In her view the legitimacy of national and imperial rule was intertwined with the moral force of Anglicanism. SueAnderson-Faithful interprets Mary Sumner's lifelong work in the light of these relationships, contrasting her assertion of personal agency and an empowering discourse of motherhood with her simultaneous reinforcement of patriarchy and class privilege.
Reports
Author: Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical ManuscriptsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 196
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A Short History of the Mothers' Union
Author: Voilet B. LancasterThe Age of the Dream Palace
Author: Jeffrey RichardsPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857710176
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
The period between the two world wars is often named 'the golden age of the cinema' in Britain. This definitive and entertaining book on the cinema and cinema-goers of the era is herewith reissued with a new Introduction. Jeffrey Richards, described by Philip French as 'a shrewd critic, a compulsive moviegoer, and a professional historian', tells the absorbing story of the cinema during the decade that produced Alfred Hitchcock's thrillers, the musicals of Jessie Matthews and Alexander Korda's epics. He examines the role of going to the pictures in people's lives during a tough period when, in the sumptuous buildings that housed local cinemas, people regularly spent a few pence to purchase ready-made dreams watching Gracie Fields, Robert Donat and the other stars of the day. He scrutinizes the film industry, censorship, cinema's influence, the nature of the star system and its images, as well as the films themselves, including the visions of Britain, British history and society that they created and represented.
Short history of the Mothers' Union
Author: Violet B. LancasterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Family - Religious life
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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