Jump to content

Penny Summerfield

Add links
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Penelope Summerfield, FBA, FRHistS, FAcSS (born 1951), commonly known as Penny Summerfield, is an English historian and retired academic.

Early life and education

[edit]

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

[edit]

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]

In 2020, Summerfield was elected a fellow of the British Academy, the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.[4] She is also a fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences[5] and the Royal Historical Society,[6] and was the chair of the Social History Society from 2008 to 2011.[7]

Personal life

[edit]

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]

She is the sister of British psychologist Quentin Summerfield.

Bibliography

[edit]

Books

[edit]
  • Summerfield, Penny (1984). Women Workers in the Second World War: Production and Patriarchy in Conflict. London: Croom Helm. ISBN 9780415752640.
  • Braybon, Gail; Summerfield, Penny (1987). Out of the Cage: Women's Experiences in Two World Wars. London: Pandora Press. ISBN 9780415752459.
  • Summerfield, Penny; Evans, Eric J., eds. (1990). Technical Education and the State since 1850: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. Manchester: Manchester University Press. ISBN 9780719029677.
  • Cosslett, Tess; Easton, Alison; Summerfield, Penny, eds. (1996). Women, Power and Resistance: An Introduction to Women's Studies. Buckingham: Open University Press. ISBN 9780335193912.
  • 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. ISBN 9781862200333.
  • Summerfield, Penny (1998). Reconstructing Womens Wartime Lives: Discourse and Subjectivity in Oral Histories of the Second World War. Manchester: Manchester University Press. ISBN 9780719044618.
  • Cosslett, Tess; Lury, Celia; Summerfield, Penny, eds. (2000). Feminism and Autobiography: Texts, Theories and Methods. Transformations: Thinking Through Feminism. London: Routledge. ISBN 9780415232029.
  • 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. ISBN 9780719062025.
  • Summerfield, Penny (2019). Histories of the Self: Personal Narratives and Historical Practice. London: Routledge. ISBN 9780415576192.

Thesis

[edit]

Peer-reviewed articles and chapters

[edit]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ a b c d Contemporary Authors, vol. 119 (Gale, 1986), p. 367.
  2. ^ Summerfield, Penny (2009). "Gail Braybon 1952–2008: An Appreciation". Women's History Review. 18 (1): 177–178. doi:10.1080/09612020802652916. S2CID 145602860.
  3. ^ a b c "Prof. Penny Summerfield", University of Manchester. Retrieved 9 June 2021.
  4. ^ "Professor Penny Summerfield FBA", The British Academy. Retrieved 9 June 2021.
  5. ^ "Professor Penny Summerfield FAcSS", Academy of Social Sciences. Retrieved 9 June 2021.
  6. ^ "Fellows – S" (Royal Historical Society). Retrieved 9 June 2021.
  7. ^ "Penny Summerfield", Social History Society. Retrieved 9 June 2021.
  8. ^ Who's Who in Finance and Industry 1998–1999 (Marquis, 1998), p. 214.
  9. ^ Sarah Easterby-Smith, Cultivating Commerce: Cultures of Botany in Britain and France, 1760–1815 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018), pp. ix–xii.
  10. ^ Alison Field, "Fulton Bench Honours Uni's First VC", University of Sussex, 15 September 2011. Retrieved 9 June 2021.
  11. ^ Fulton's university profile is at "Oliver Fulton", Department of Educational Research, University of Lancaster. Retrieved 9 June 2021.
Retrieved from "http://en.wiki.x.io/w/index.php?title=Penny_Summerfield&oldid=1233898780"