This new edition is fully revised and brings the history of the women's movement in Britain right up to the end of the twentieth century. The author focuses attention on the different generations of women involved in the women's movement since 1914 and examines the marked trend towards marriage and motherhood amongst British women since the 1920s, arguing that domesticity has, historically, been a positive influence promoting change in the lives of women. Pugh has a very wide focus, assessing feminist pressure groups, women's organisations and the growth of popular women's magazines. The book is brought up-to-date with two new chapters on the women's movement in the 1960s and on the influence of Britain's first female Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher.
Table of contents:
List of Tables
Preface
Acknowledgements
Women and the Women's Movement before 1914
The Impact of the Great War
Strategy and Tactics of the Women's Movement in the 1920s
The Anti-Feminist Reaction
The Domestication of British Politics
The Political Containment of Women, 1918-1939
The Cult of Domesticity in the 1930s
The New Feminism and the Decline of the Women's Movement in the 1930s
Women in the Second World War
The Nadir of British Feminism 1945-1959?
Women's Liberation
Feminism in the Era of Thatcherism, 1979 - 1999
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Table of contents:
List of Tables
Preface
Acknowledgements
Women and the Women's Movement before 1914
The Impact of the Great War
Strategy and Tactics of the Women's Movement in the 1920s
The Anti-Feminist Reaction
The Domestication of British Politics
The Political Containment of Women, 1918-1939
The Cult of Domesticity in the 1930s
The New Feminism and the Decline of the Women's Movement in the 1930s
Women in the Second World War
The Nadir of British Feminism 1945-1959?
Women's Liberation
Feminism in the Era of Thatcherism, 1979 - 1999
Notes
Bibliography
Index