Newer Eve - Women, Feminists and the Labour Party

Informationen zum Autor CHRISTINE COLLETTE is a freelance scholar and lives in France. This, her seventh book, completes her study of women and the Labour movement that began with For Labour and For Women (Manchester University Press, 1989). The route led through trades unionism, a Labour Party parliamentary candidature, teaching General Studies to engineers and History and Women's Studies to graduates and undergraduates at Edge Hill University, where she became Reader in Class and Gender Studies. Klappentext Feminist theory is interwoven with women's voices in this study of three consecutive Twentieth-century women's organisations, separate but affiliated to the Labour Party, which represented women workers, consumers and politicians, so that the totality of women's involvement in the Labour movement is considered. Zusammenfassung Feminist theory is interwoven with women's voices in this study of three consecutive Twentieth-century women's organisations! separate but affiliated to the Labour Party! which represented women workers! consumers and politicians! so that the totality of women's involvement in the Labour movement is considered. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Abbreviations Introduction PART I: REPRESENTATION: THE WOMEN'S LABOUR LEAGUE Foundation of the Women's Labour League Consolidation of the Women's Labour League Enid Stacy, Marion Barry, Clarice McNab Shaw PART II: WAR: THE STANDING JOINT COMMITTEE First World War The Standing Joint Committee in the Inter War Years Bronwen Tall Brittain, Florence Davy and Mary Sutherland International Organization Irene Wagner and Ellen Wilkinson War and Post War PART III: THE SECOND WAVE: THE NATIONAL JOINT COMMITTEE The National Joint Committee from the 1960s The National Joint Committee in the 1980s Joining the Parliamentary Road Conclusion Bibliography Index

Produktdetails

• Autoren: C Collette, C. Collette, Christine Collette, Christine F. Collette
• Verlag: Palgrave UK
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 22.04.2009
• EAN: 9780230222144
• ISBN: 978-0-230-22214-4
• Seiten: 199
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Allgemeines, Lexika; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Politikwissenschaft > Allgemeines, Lexika; Sex, B, Gender Studies, History, European History, Political Science, Clinical psychology, Political History, Western Europe, History: specific events and topics, Gender studies, gender groups, Political science and theory, History, Modern, Palgrave History Collection, Modern History, History of Britain and Ireland, Great Britain—History, labour movement;parliament;women