Böcker av Lesley Johnson

Originally published in 1979, the central focus of this study is the concept of culture as employed by English literary intellectuals over the preceding 100 years. The author traces this tradition through the writings of various English intellectuals, using Matthew Arnold, F. R. Leavis and Raymond Williams to elucidate the concept.

Challenging our understandings of what constitutes the housewife figure, this book addresses the question of why the housewife has been such a problematic figure in feminist debates since World War II.