Description |
ix, 290 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
Contents |
Introduction / Jane Rendall -- Part 1. Cottage religion and the politics of survival / Deborah Valenze -- Women, work and politics in nineteenth-century England : The problem of authority / Dorothy Thompson -- 'A burning zeal for righteousness' : Women in the British anti-slavery movement, 1820-1860 / Louis Billington and Rosamund Billington -- 'A moral engine'? Feminism, liberalism and the English Woman's Journal / Jane Rendall -- Part 2. The married woman, the 'new woman' and the feminist : Sexual politics of the 1890s / Lucy Bland -- Party political women : A comparative study of liberal women and the Primrose League, 1890-1914 / Linda Walker -- Women in council : Separate spheres, public space / Patricia Hollis -- 'In the comradeship of the sexes lies the hope of progress and social regeneration' : Women in the West Riding ILP, c1890-1914 / June Hannam |
Analysis |
Great Britain Politics Role of women, 1800-1914 |
Notes |
Includes index |
Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [239]-280 |
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Includes index |
Subject |
Feminism -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Women -- Political activity -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Author |
Rendall, Jane, 1945-
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LC no. |
87013844 |
ISBN |
0631145222 |
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0631145230 (paperback) |
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