Born in 1951 in London, Summerfield is the daughter of Arthur Summerfield, a professor, and Aline Whalley, a psychologist. She attended the University of Sussex, graduating with a BA in 1973, an MA in 1976 and a DPhil in 1982.[1] Her doctoral studies were supervised by Stephen Yeo.[2]
Career and honours
Summerfield was a research assistant and tutor at Durham University from 1976 to 1978.[1] She then taught at the Lancaster University from 1978,[3] first as a lecturer in the social history of education,[1] and latterly as Professor of Women's History (1994–2000).[3] She moved to the University of Manchester in 2000 to be Professor of Modern History; there, she served as head of the School of History and Classics (2002–2003) and the School of Arts, Histories and Cultures (2003–2006).[3]
She was married to the management studies academic and Lancaster University professor Mark Easterby-Smith, with whom she had two children before they divorced;[1][8] their daughter is the historian Sarah Easterby-Smith.[9] Summerfield later married Oliver Fulton, an emeritus professor of higher education at Lancaster University and the son of the university administrator John Fulton, Baron Fulton.[10][11]
Summerfield, Penny (1984). Women Workers in the Second World War: Production and Patriarchy in Conflict. London: Croom Helm. ISBN9780415752640.
Braybon, Gail; Summerfield, Penny (1987). Out of the Cage: Women's Experiences in Two World Wars. London: Pandora Press. ISBN9780415752459.
Summerfield, Penny; Evans, Eric J., eds. (1990). Technical Education and the State since 1850: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. Manchester: Manchester University Press. ISBN9780719029677.
Cosslett, Tess; Easton, Alison; Summerfield, Penny, eds. (1996). Women, Power and Resistance: An Introduction to Women's Studies. Buckingham: Open University Press. ISBN9780335193912.
Summerfield, Penny (1997). 'My Dress for an Army Uniform': Gender Instabilities in the Two World Wars: An Inaugural Lecture Delivered at the University of Lancaster on 30 April 1997. Lancaster: University of Lancaster. ISBN9781862200333.
Summerfield, Penny (1998). Reconstructing Womens Wartime Lives: Discourse and Subjectivity in Oral Histories of the Second World War. Manchester: Manchester University Press. ISBN9780719044618.
Cosslett, Tess; Lury, Celia; Summerfield, Penny, eds. (2000). Feminism and Autobiography: Texts, Theories and Methods. Transformations: Thinking Through Feminism. London: Routledge. ISBN9780415232029.
Summerfield, Penny; Peniston-Bird, Corinna (2007). Contesting Home Defence: Men, Women and the Home Guard in the Second World War. Cultural History of Modern War. Manchester: Manchester University Press. ISBN9780719062025.
Summerfield, Penny (2019). Histories of the Self: Personal Narratives and Historical Practice. London: Routledge. ISBN9780415576192.
Summerfield, Penelope (1981). "The Effingham Arms and the Empire: Deliberate Selection in the Evolution of Music Hall in London". In Yeo, Eileen; Yeo, Stephen (eds.). Popular Culture and Class Conflict, 1590–1914: Explorations in the History of Labour and Leisure. Brighton: Harvester. pp.209–240. ISBN9780855271237.
Summerfield, Penelope (1983). "Women, Work and Welfare: A Study of Child Care and Shopping in Britain in the Second World War". Journal of Social History. 17 (2): 249–269. doi:10.1353/jsh/17.2.249.
Summerfield, Penny (1986). "The 'Levelling of Class'". In Smith, Harold L. (ed.). War and Social Change: British Society in the Second World War. Manchester: Manchester Manchester University Press. pp.179–207.
Summerfield, Penny (1987). "Cultural Reproduction in the Education of Girls: A Study of Girls' Secondary Schooling in Two Lancashire Towns, 1900–50". In Hunt, Felicity (ed.). Lessons for Life: The Schooling of Girls and Women, 1850–1950. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. pp.149–170. ISBN9780631149750.
Summerfield, Penny (1987). "An Oral History of Schooling in Lancashire, 1900–1950: Gender, Class and Education". Oral History. 15 (2): 19–31. JSTOR40178956.
Summerfield, Penny (1993). "Approaches to Women and Social Change in the Second World War". In Brivati, Brian; Jones, Harriet (eds.). What Difference Did the War Make?. Themes in Contemporary British History. London: Leicester University Press. pp.63–79. ISBN9780718522636.
Summerfield, Penny (1996). "The Girl That Makes the Thing That Drills the Hole That Holds the Spring...': Discourses of Women and Work in the Second World War". In Gledhill, Christine; Swanson, Gillian (eds.). Nationalising Femininity: Culture, Sexuality and British Cinema in the Second World War. Manchester: Manchester University Press. pp.35–52. ISBN9780719083501.
Summerfield, Penny (1996). "The Women's Movement in Britain from the 1860s to the 1980s". In Cosslett, Tess; Easton, Alison; Summerfield, Penny (eds.). Women, Power and Resistance: An Introduction to Women's Studies. Buckingham: Open University Press. pp.227–237. ISBN9780335193912.
Summerfield, Penny (2000). "'She Wants a Gun Not a Dishcloth!': Gender, Service and Citizenship in Britain in the Second World War". In DeGroot, Gerard J.; Peniston-Bird, Corinna (eds.). A Soldier and a Woman: Sexual Integration in the Military. Women and Men in History. Harlow: Pearson Education. pp.119–134. ISBN9780582414396.
Summerfield, Penny (2000). "Dis/Composing the Subject: Intersubjectivities in Oral History". In Cosslett, Tess; Lury, Celia; Summerfield, Penny (eds.). Feminism and Autobiography: Texts, Theories and Methods. Transformations: Thinking Through Feminism. London: Routledge. pp.91–106. ISBN9780415232029.
Summerfield, Penny (2000). "Hat der Krieg die Britischen Frauen Emanzipiert? Diskurse und Lebensgeschichten uber die Auswirkungen des Kriegs". In Bandhauer-Schöffmann, I.; Duchen, Claire (eds.). Nach dem Krieg: Frauenleben und Geschlechterkonstruktionen in Europa nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg. Herbolzheim: Centaurus Verlag. pp.21–44. ISBN9783825503062.
Summerfield, Penny (2000). "'It Did Me Good in Lots of Ways': British Women in Transition from War to Peace". In Duchen, Claire; Bandhauer-Schöffmann, Irene (eds.). When the War Was Over: Women, War and Peace in Europe, 1940–1956. London: Leicester University Press. pp.13–29. ISBN9781441172709.
Summerfield, Penny; Peniston-Bird, Corinna M. (2003). "The Home-Guard in Britain in the Second World War: Uncertain Masculinities?". In Higate, Paul R. (ed.). Military Masculinities: Identity and the State. Westport: Praeger Publishers. pp.57–69. ISBN9780275975586.
Summerfield, Penny (2004). "Popular Memory and Oral History: Issues of Methodology in English Contemporary Historiography". In Frau-Meigs, Divina; Amfreville, Marc (eds.). Introspections, Rétrospections: Sélection des Actes du Colloque de l'Université d'Orléans, 29–30 Septembre 2000. Orleans: Presses Universitaires d'Orleans. pp.31–40. ISBN9782913454224.
Summerfield, Penny (2005). "'Our Amazonian Colleague?: Edith Summerskill's Problematic Reputation". In Toye, R.; Gottlieb, J. (eds.). Making Reputations: Power, Persuasion and the Individual in Modern British Politics. London: I. B. Taurus. pp.135–150. ISBN9781850438410.
Summerfield, Penny (2005). "Oral History as a Research Method". In Griffin, Gabriele (ed.). Research Methods for English Studies (1sted.). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. pp.47–66.
Summerfield, Penny (2007). "Gender and Issues of Integration in Britain, 1939–45". In Linke, Gabrielle; Rossow, Holger (eds.). Rhetoric and Representation: The British at War. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter. pp.81–98. ISBN9783825353902.
Summerfield, Penny (2008). "Dad's Army, the Home Guard, and the Memory of the British War Effort". In Riera, Monica; Schaffer, Gavin (eds.). The Lasting War: Society and Identity in Britain, France and Germany after 1945. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. pp.86–99. ISBN9780230506718.
Summerfield, Penny (2013). "Oral History as a Research Method". In Griffin, Gabriele (ed.). Research Methods for English Studies (2nded.). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. pp.48–68. ISBN9780748683451.
Summerfield, Penny (2014). "The Generation of Memory: Gender and the Popular Memory of the Second World War in Britain". In Noakes, Lucy; Pattinson, Juliette (eds.). British Cultural Memory and the Second World War. London: Bloomsbury. pp.25–46. ISBN9781441104977.
↑ Who's Who in Finance and Industry 1998–1999 (Marquis, 1998), p. 214.
↑ Sarah Easterby-Smith, Cultivating Commerce: Cultures of Botany in Britain and France, 1760–1815 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018), pp. ix–xii.
↑ Fulton's university profile is at "Oliver Fulton", Department of Educational Research, University of Lancaster. Retrieved 9 June 2021.
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