Rethinking right-wing women (eBook, ePUB)

Gender and the Conservative Party, 1880s to the present
Redaktion: Berthezène, Clarisse; Gottlieb, Julie

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Rethinking Right-Wing Women 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. From the Primrose League (est.1883) to Women2Win (est.2005), the party has exploited women's political commitment and their social power from the grass-roots to the heights of the establishment. Yet, although it is the party that extended the equal franchise, had the first woman MP to sit Parliament, and produced the first two women Prime Ministers, the UK Conservative Party has developed political roles for women that jar with feminist and progressive agendas. Conservative women have tended to be more concerned about the fulfilment of women's duties than the realisation of women's rights. This book tackles the ambivalences between women's politicisation and women's emancipation in the history of Britain's most electorally successful and hegemonic political party.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bonnier Books UK
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526125200
• Artikelnr.: 57473472

Autorenporträt

Clarisse Berthezène is Lecturer at the University of Paris Diderot Julie V. Gottlieb is Reader in Modern History at the University of Sheffield

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Clarisse Berthezène & Julie Gottlieb 1. 'Open the eyes of England': female unionism and conservatism, 1886
1914
Diane Urquhart 2. Christabel Pankhurst
A Conservative suffragette?
June Purvis 3. At the heart of the party? The women's Conservative organisation in the age of partial suffrage, 1914
1928
David Thackeray 4. Conservative women and the Primrose League's struggle for survival, 1914
1932
Matthew Hendley 5. Modes and models of Conservative women's leadership in the 1930s
Julie Gottlieb 6. The middlebrow and the making of a 'new common sense': Women's voluntarism, Conservative politics and representations of womanhood
Clarisse Berthezène 7. Churchill, women, and the politics of gender
Richard Toye 8. '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 Cowman 9. Conservatism, gender and the politics of everyday life, 1950s
1980s
Adrian Bingham 10. Feminist responses to Thatcher and Thatcherism
Laura Beers 11. The (feminised) contemporary Conservative party
Rosie Campbell and Sarah Childs 12. Conserving Conservative women: A view from the archives
Jeremy McIlwaine 13. Women2Win and the feminization of the UK Conservative party
Baroness Ann Jenkin with an introduction by Sarah Childs