Women and the Women's Movement in Britain Since 1914

ISBN-13: 9781137414908 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 360 str.

Martin Pugh

Opis

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.

Spis treści

List of Tables Preface to the Second Edition Preface to the Third Edition 1. The Impact of the Great War 2. Strategy and Tactics of the Women's Movement in the 1920s 3. The Anti-Feminist Reaction 4. The Domestication of British Politics 5. The Political Containment of Women, 1918-1939 6. The Cult of Domesticity in the 1930s 7. The New Feminism and the Decline of the Women's Movement in the 1930s 8. Women in the Second World War 9. The Nadir of British Feminism 1945-1959? 10. Women's Liberation 11. Feminism in the Era of Thatcherism, 1979-1997 12. Fourth Wave Feminism 1997-2013 Notes Bibliography Index.

O autorze

Martin Pugh was formerly Professor of British History at Newcastle University, UK, and Research Professor in History at Liverpool John Moores University, UK.

Blurb

In 1918, eight million women won the vote – but what does this mean for those living a century later?

Women and the Women's Movement since 1914 explores the successes and setbacks of the women's movement across several generations. It examines the relationship between the organised women's movement, the political elite and popular commercial forces such as women's magazines. Martin Pugh analyses the strategies used by women after 1918 to get elected to parliament and argues that there is little evidence that voters were hostile to women. He explains why militant tactics were disposed of after women had won the vote and demonstrates how the movement adapted its programme to changed conditions under a mass electorate.

This third edition has been fully updated to include a new chapter on the political breakthrough of 1997 and its consequences. This also assesses the extent to which employment issues have become the chief focus of the movement, alongside the emergence of women in powerful positions in the Trades Union Congress and in government. The impact of the internet on new methods of feminist campaigning is also examined, as this study brings us up to the present day and looks towards the future – and the huge impact women are likely to have in forthcoming elections.