‘Girls who arouse dangerous passions’: women and bathing, 1900-39

@article{Horwood2000GirlsWA,
  title={‘Girls who arouse dangerous passions’: women and bathing, 1900-39},
  author={Catherine Horwood},
  journal={Women's History Review},
  year={2000},
  volume={9},
  pages={653 - 673}
}
  • C. Horwood
  • Published 1 December 2000
  • Sociology
  • Women's History Review
Abstract This article focuses on the struggle by women to achieve unsegregated access to beaches and swimming pools in Britain from the beginning of the twentieth century until the start of the Second World War against a background of bureaucratic regulation. Through a variety of sources that contrast official material with the mood within popular culture, it exposes the clash of patriarchal prudery against changing public opinions. It poses questions on the notions of female modesty and… 
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