Women And The Women S Movement In Britain Since 1914

Author : Martin Pugh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Feminism
ISBN : UCSC:32106010368204

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Women and the Women's Movement in Britain, 1914-1959 by Martin Pugh Pdf

'This book provides a comprehensive and well documented political history of women and the women's movement in the period under examination, drawing on evidence from a wide range of sources and analysing the complex inter-relationship between the organized women's movement, the majority of women outside the official women's movement, and the male political establishment in Britain.' A. Brown, University of Edinburgh, political Studies, Vol. XL1, No 2, 6/93. Using the widest range of evidence, from the political feminist pressure groups to popular women's magazines, this book provides a challenging and original analysis of the adaptation of the women's movement in Britain in the period between the winning of the vote and the late 1950's. It examines how women successfully worked with the grain of change in the political system; but it also considers the nature of the long-term decline of the organised movement.

Author : A. Fell,I. Sharp
Publisher : Springer
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2007-04-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230210790

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The Women's Movement in Wartime by A. Fell,I. Sharp Pdf

This comparative, interdisciplinary book explores the responses of the women's movement to World War I in all of the major belligerent nations. The contributors cover key topics including women's relationship with the state, women's war service, mothers in wartime, suffrage, peace and the aftermath of war, and women's guilt and responsibility.

Author : Martin Pugh
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137414915

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Women and the Women's Movement in Britain since 1914 by Martin Pugh Pdf

This new edition of an established text brings the history of the women's movement in Britain right up to the present day. Updated and expanded, the third edition features a new final chapter focusing on the parliamentary breakthrough of 1997 and the likely impact of women in the upcoming general election. Another major addition is the study of the effects of the Thatcher era on a generation of women, from a greater distance. The book has been thoroughly revised throughout to analyse the themes and developments of the new millennium, including women's employment, women and liberal society, and women in public life.

Author : Martin Pugh
Publisher : MacMillan
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Feminism
ISBN : 0333732650

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Women and the Women's Movement in Britain, 1914-1999 by Martin Pugh Pdf

This revised edition brings the history of the women's movement in Britain up to the end of the 20th century. The author focuses attention on the different generations of women involved in the women's movement since 1914 and examines the marked trend towards marriage and motherhood amongst British women since the 1920s, arguing that domesticity has, historically, been a positive influence promoting change in the lives of women. Pugh has a very wide focus, assessing feminist pressure groups, women's organizations and the growth of popular women's magazines. The 2nd edition has been expanded with two new chapters on the women's movement in the 1960s and on the influence of Britain's first female Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher.

Author : Sybil Oldfield
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000634259

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This Working-Day World by Sybil Oldfield Pdf

Originally published in 1994, This Working-Day World is lively collection of essays presenting a social, political and cultural view of British women’s lives in the period 1914–45. The volume describes women’s activities in many different areas, ranging from the weekly wash to the rescue of child refugees. Each essay, from an international list of contributors, is based on new research which will complement existing studies in a range of disciplines by adding information on, among other topics, women’s teacher training colleges, and women in the BBC, in medical laboratories and in Art schools. The book does not, however, idealise women: the militarism and racism of the period infected women too, and this is revealed in the account of women in the British Union of Fascists, and the analysis of the Pankhursts’ merging of patriotism and gender issues. Through studies and personal accounts, This Working-Day World reveals past issues that are still pertinent to debates in today’s society. As we read the chapter on the recently discovered Diary of Doreen Bates which outlines possibly the first female civil servant campaign for rights as a single mother, we hear echoes of issues being discussed today. Indeed, as we approach the end of the century it is a good moment to look back and re-evaluate areas and degrees of progress – or the reverse – in society, and in British women’s lives in particular. With its unusual photographs, this accessible and informative collection provides a rich resource for students in twentieth century social and cultural history, and women’s studies courses, and an enlightening volume for general readers.

Author : Susan Kingsley Kent
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781400858637

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Sex and Suffrage in Britain, 1860-1914 by Susan Kingsley Kent Pdf

Although other historians have viewed the suffrage movement as aimed at exclusively political ends, she argues that such a categorization ignores many of the most compelling reasons why thousands of middle and upper-class women risked ostracism, obloquy, and, often, physical harm in the pursuit of the right to vote and why their efforts met with such intense opposition. The alliance of respectable" middle-class women with prostitutes, the attack on marriage, and the suffragists' distrust of the medical profession are among the topics the author addresses. Drawing on hypotheses advanced by Michel Foucault, she asserts that feminists sought no less than the total transformation of the lives of women. Originally published in 1987. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Christine Bolt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317867289

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The Women's Movements in the United States and Britain from the 1790s to the 1920s by Christine Bolt Pdf

This book presents a study of the development of the feminist movement in Britain and America during the 19th century. Acknowledging the similar social conditions in both countries during that period, the author suggests that a real sense of distinctiveness did exist between British and American feminists. American feminists were inspired by their own perception of the superiority of their social circumstances, for example, whereas British feminists found their cause complicated by traditional considerations of class. Christine Bolt aims to show that the story of the American and British women's movement is one of national distinctiveness within an international cause. This book should be of interest to students and teachers of American and British political history and women's studies.

Author : Susie Steinbach
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780226668

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Women in England 1760-1914 by Susie Steinbach Pdf

A rich and fresh survey of women's lives between George III and the First World War Using diaries, letters, memoirs as well as social and statistical research, this book looks at life-expectancy, sex, marriage and childbirth, and work inside and outside the home, for all classes of women. It charts the poverty and struggles of the working class as well as the leadership roles of middle-class and elite women. It considers the influence of religion, education, and politics, especially the advent of organised feminism and the suffragette movement. It looks, too, at the huge role played by women in the British Empire: how imperialism shaped English women's lives and how women also moulded the Empire.

Author : Julie V. Gottlieb,Richard Toye
Publisher : Springer
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137333001

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The Aftermath of Suffrage by Julie V. Gottlieb,Richard Toye Pdf

This collection explores the aftermath of the Representation of the People Act, which gave some British women the vote. Experts examine the paths taken by both former-suffragists as well as their anti-suffragist adversaries, the practices of suffrage commemoration, and the changing priorities and formations of British feminism in this era.

Author : Sue Bruley
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0312223757

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Women in Britain Since 1900 by Sue Bruley Pdf

This woman-centered history of Britain in the 20th century traces the changing concept of femininity in different chronological time periods. Women are focused on as agents for social change, and each chapter has a section on the women's movement. A separate chapter is devoted to each of the World Wars. After reviewing women's progress over the last hundred years, the book explores the question: Have women gained equality?

Author : Susan Kent
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0691054975

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Sex and Suffrage in Britain, 1860-1914 by Susan Kent Pdf

Sex and suffrage in Britain, 1860-1914 analyses the issues and concerns about sexuality that permeated women's suffrage in Britain from its inception in the 1860s right up to 1914.Women's quest for the vote Kent argues, was indissolubly linked with other feminist demands for reform which would overturn the cultural constructions of masculinity and femininity and determined their powerlessness in both public and private.

Author : Laura Schwartz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0719097282

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Infidel Feminism by Laura Schwartz Pdf

Infidel feminism is the first in-depth study of a distinctive brand of women's rights that emerged out of the Victorian Secularist movement. Anti-religious or secular ideas were fundamental to the development of feminist thought, but have, until now, been almost entirely passed over in the historiography of the Victorian and Edwardian women's movement. In uncovering an important tradition of Freethinking feminism, this book reveals an ongoing radical and free love current connecting Owenite feminism with the more 'respectable' post-1850 women's movement and the 'New Women' of the early twentieth century. Schwartz looks at the lives and work of a number of female activists associated with organised Secularism, whose renunciation of religion encouraged and shaped their support for women's emancipation. These self-proclaimed 'infidel' feminists championed moral autonomy, free speech, and the democratic dissemination of knowledge. Alongside their rejection of god-given notions of sexual difference and a critique of the Christian institution of marriage such Freethinking principles provided powerful intellectual tools with which to challenge dominant and oppressive constructions of womanhood. Their contribution to the wider feminist movement was significant at a time when the issue of women's rights was integral to the creation of modern definitions of 'religion' and 'secularism' and when feminists and anti-feminists, Christians and Freethinkers battled over who had women's best interests at heart. This book will be invaluable to both scholars and students of social and cultural history and feminist thought, and to interdisciplinary studies of religion and secularisation. Its accessible style will also ensure that it appeals to those interested in the history of women's movements more broadly.

Author : Helen Jones
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025196234

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Women in British Public Life, 1914-1950 by Helen Jones Pdf

Focusing mainly on Britain, but offering comparisons with the experiences of women in other countries too, this study examines the impact of women campaigners and suffragettes on welfare and social policy formulation and implementation.

Author : Ellen Jordan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Feminism
ISBN : OCLC:1319801889

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The Women's Movement and Women's Employment in Nineteenth Century Britain by Ellen Jordan Pdf

Author : Ray Strachey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Feminism
ISBN : OCLC:59810957

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The Cause by Ray Strachey Pdf