Housewives and Citizens: Domesticity and the Women's Movement in England, 1928–64 - Rilegato

Beaumont, Caitriona

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ISBN 10: 0719086078 ISBN 13: 9780719086076

Casa editrice: Manchester Univ Pr, 2013

Riassunto

This book explores the contribution that five conservative, voluntary and popular women’s organisations made to women’s lives and to the campaign for women’s rights throughout the period 1928–64. The book challenges existing histories of the women’s movement that suggest the movement went into decline during the inter-war period, only to be revived by the emergence of the Women’s Liberation Movement in the late 1960s. It is argued that the term 'women’s movement' must be revised to allow a broader understanding of female agency encompassing feminist, political, religious and conservative women’s groups who campaigned to improve the status of women throughout the twentieth century. The book provides a radical re-assessment of this period of women’s history and in doing so makes a significant contribution to ongoing debates about the shape and impact of the women’s movement in twentieth-century Britain.

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Recensione:

Housewives and Citizens offers a refreshing perspective on women s activism in 20th century England, enlarging and challenging- our study of the past --Professor June Purvis, Times Higher Education 21 November 2013

Caitríona Beaumont makes an important contribution to a growing historiography which seeks to suggest that the period from universal female suffrage in 1928 to the emergence of Second Wave feminism in the 1960s was a time of greater achievements for the women s movement than is often assumed --Dr. David Thackeray, Contemporary British History, 28, 2, 2014

Beaumont has provided a scrupulous, scholarly and convincing history of the extensive role of women and the women s movement in mid twentieth century public life Dr Lucy Delap, Economic History Review, 68, 1 February 2015

an impressive and wide-ranging exploration of a still neglected part of the history of British women in the twentieth century Dr Anne Logan, Twentieth Century British History, July 2014

Housewives and Citizens is an important revisionist work that suggests a redefinition of the women s movement and women s activism Professor Stephen Brooke, Journal of British Studies, 53, 4, October 2014

--Various

L'autore:

Caitríona Beaumont is Principal Lecturer in Social History at London South Bank University

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Manchester Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0719086078
• ISBN 13: 9780719086076
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 244