This collection re-visions the history of girls and women in Britain in the 1950s and offers new ways of thinking about established and new categories of historical analysis. Its methodological and conceptual interventions enrich and extend women's history. It was originally published as a special issue of Women's History Review.

Introduction: Revisioning the History of Girls and Women in Britain in the Long 1950s 1. Teetering on the Edge: portraits of innocence, risk and young female sexualities in 1950s' and 1960s' British cinema 2. 'Nothing gets her goat!' The Farmer's Wife and the Duality of Rural Femininity in the Young Farmers' Club Movement in 1950s Britain 3. Women, Marriage and Paid Work in Post-war Britain 4. Taking Work Home: the private secretary and domestic identities in the long 1950s 5. Feelings, Women and Work in the Long 1950s 6. Cosmopolitan Sociability in the British and International Federations of University Women, 1945-1960 7. Special Relationships: mixed-race couples in post-war Britain and the United States 8. Belonging and 'Unbelonging': Jewish refugee and survivor women in 1950s Britain 9. What Do Women Want? Housewives' Associations, Activism and Changing Representations of Women in the 1950s