Women and the women's movement in Britain since 1914 /

"This new edition of an established text brings the history of the women's movement in Britain right up to the present day. Updated and expanded, the third edition features a new final chapter focusing on the parliamentary breakthrough of 1997 and the likely impact of women in the upcoming...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pugh, Martin (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave, 2015.
Edition:3rd edition.
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Table of Contents:
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  • List of Tables
  • Preface to the Second Edition
  • Preface to the Third Edition
  • 1. The Impact of the Great War
  • 2. Strategy and Tactics of the Women's Movement in the 1920s
  • 3. The Anti-Feminist Reaction
  • 4. The Domestication of British Politics
  • 5. The Political Containment of Women, 1918-1939
  • 6. The Cult of Domesticity in the 1930s
  • 7. The New Feminism and the Decline of the Women's Movement in the 1930s
  • 8. Women in the Second World War
  • 9. The Nadir of British Feminism 1945-1959?
  • 10. Women's Liberation
  • 11. Feminism in the Era of Thatcherism, 1979-1997
  • 12. Fourth Wave Feminism 1997-2013
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.