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Informationen zum Autor Clarisse Berthezène is a Lecturer at the University of Paris Diderot Klappentext Rethinking Right-wing Women traces the mobilization of women for the UK Conservative Party from the period before their enfranchisement to Theresa May. As party workers and organisers, MPs and leaders, and as voters, women have been fundamental to the success of the Conservative Party. Zusammenfassung Explores the institutional structures for and the representations! mobilisation! and the political careers of women in the British Conservative Party since the late 19th century. This book tackles the ambivalences between women's politicisation and women's emancipation in the history of Britain's most electorally successful and hegemonic party. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Clarisse Berthezène & Julie Gottlieb1. 'Open the eyes of England': female unionism and conservatism, 1886-1914 - Diane Urquhart2. Christabel Pankhurst - A Conservative suffragette? - June Purvis3. At the heart of the party? The women's Conservative organisation in the age of partial suffrage, 1914-1928 - David Thackeray4. Conservative women and the Primrose League's struggle for survival, 1914-1932 - Matthew Hendley5. Modes and models of Conservative women's leadership in the 1930s - Julie Gottlieb6. The middlebrow and the making of a 'new common sense': Women's voluntarism, Conservative politics and representations of womanhood - Clarisse Berthezène7. Churchill, women, and the politics of gender - Richard Toye8. 'The Statutory Woman whose Main Task was to Explore what Women were Likely to Think.' Margaret Thatcher and Women's Politics in the 1950s and 1960s - Krista Cowman9. Conservatism, gender and the politics of everyday life, 1950s-1980s - Adrian Bingham 10. Feminist responses to Thatcher and Thatcherism - Laura Beers11. The (feminised) contemporary Conservative party - Rosie Campbell and Sarah Childs12. Conserving Conservative women: A view from the archives - Jeremy McIlwaine13. Women2Win and the feminization of the UK Conservative party - Baroness Ann Jenkin with an introduction by Sarah Childs...
