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Women's Activism in Twentieth-Century Britain Paula Bartley

Women's Activism in Twentieth-Century Britain By Paula Bartley

Women's Activism in Twentieth-Century Britain by Paula Bartley

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This book serves as an introduction to the extraordinary diversity of women's activism. The story of women's activism embodies stimulating accounts of progress and reversals, of commitment and uncertainty, of competing rights and challenging wrongs.

Women's Activism in Twentieth-Century Britain Summary

Women's Activism in Twentieth-Century Britain: Making a Difference Across the Political Spectrum by Paula Bartley

This book serves as an introduction to the extraordinary diversity of women's activism. Paula Bartley's original research is supported by a range of writing to provide a powerful impression of the actions taken by groups of women from across the social and political spectrum, making the book invaluable to both students and interested readers. These women set out to make a difference to their locality, their country and sometimes the world. The story of women's activism embodies stimulating accounts of progress and reversals, of commitment and uncertainty, of competing rights and challenging wrongs. The story of women's activism is not tidy or well-ordered. It is messy and unorthodox. And full of surprises.

Women's Activism in Twentieth-Century Britain Reviews

This book will, I am sure, become a core textbook for students, researchers, teachers, and general readers interested in twentieth-century British Women's History and Politics. This will be facilitated by Women's Activism in the Twentieth Century having been produced in both paperback and electronic form at a price which is accessible. (Maggie Andrews, 20th Century British History, February 7, 2023)

I read Women's Activism in Twentieth Century Britain as an activist who believes strongly in telling my history - and that of my community - and as a socialist, feminist and trade unionist. It is an ambitious book which sometimes made me feel overwhelmed with the inclusion of so much history. ... This is so important-as is this book-as Paula concludes 'Without new research and these fresh interpretations, there is a real danger that history itself-not just the people in the past-will perish.' (lipsticksocialist.wordpress.com, May 9, 2022)

About Paula Bartley

Paula Bartley is a feminist historian who has written widely on, and promoted, women's history. Her books include Ellen Wilkinson (2014), Queen Victoria (2016) and Labour Women in Power: Cabinet Ministers in the Twentieth Century (Palgrave, 2019). She is a former judge and Chair of the Women's History Network book prize.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Themes and Debates.2. A New Age: 1900-1914.3. The Home Front: 1914-1918.4. The Not-So-Roaring Twenties: 1918-1929.5. The Hungry Thirties: 1930-1939.6. The Second World War: 1939-1945.7. The Post-War World: 1945-1960.8. The Less-Than-Swinging Sixties: 1960-1970.9. The Selfish Seventies?: 1970-1979.10. Margaret Thatcher's Age and After: 1979-2000.11. Conclusion: Change and Continuities.

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NGR9783030927202
9783030927202
3030927202
Women's Activism in Twentieth-Century Britain: Making a Difference Across the Political Spectrum by Paula Bartley
Paula Bartley
Gender and History
New
Paperback
Springer Nature Switzerland AG
2022-04-02
286
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