Looks at the relationship of working-class organizations to gender and the role of women in their movements and in society in general during the interwar period. National chapters are arranged in geographic and thematic sections on left-wing parties in Central Europe, social democratic parties in Ho
Looks at the relationship of working-class organizations to gender and the role of women in their movements and in society in general during the inter...
Until recently, histories of women tended to be segregated from the larger historical context. This pioneering volume places the role of women within the history of the interwar years, whenboth the women's and socialist movements became prominent, and raises the key question of how power was distributed between the genders in a historical setting. The emblematic title of this volume highlights the fundamental conception of this comparative study of eleven West European countries: that in the interwar decades two great movements gained in strength, converged, diverged, competed, and...
Until recently, histories of women tended to be segregated from the larger historical context. This pioneering volume places the role of women within ...
