Women And Social Action In Victorian And Edwardian England
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Author | : Jane E. Lewis |
Publisher | : Edward Elgar Publishing |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Considers the contribution of women to social action in Victorian and Edwardian England, highlighting the role of women in public life and the influence of the state, as compared to the individual or philanthropic activity, in the development of welfare provision.
Author | : June Purvis |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 631 |
Release | : 2008-01-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1135367094 |
Women's History: Britain 1850-1945 introduces the main themes and debates of feminist history during this period of change, and brings together the findings of new research. It examines the suffrage movement, race and empire, industrialisation, the impact of war and womens literature. Specialists in their own fields have each written a chapter on a key aspect of womens lives including health, the family, education, sexuality, work and politics. Each contribution provides an overview of the main issues and debates within each area and offers suggestions for further reading. It not only provides an invaluable introduction to every aspect of womens participation in the political, social and economic history of Britain, but also brings the reader up to date with current historical thinking on the study of womens history itself.
Author | : Steven King |
Publisher | : Liverpool University Press |
Total Pages | : 377 |
Release | : 2010-04-07 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1836241380 |
Offers a reappraisal of the role of women in the politics and practice of welfare in late Victorian and early Edwardian England. Using a working diary written by the activist and female poor law guardian Mary Haslam, this book portrays Bolton women as sophisticated political operators.
Author | : Gerry Holloway |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2007-05-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1134513003 |
The first book of its kind to study this period, Gerry Holloway's essential student resource works chronologically from the early 1840s to the end of the twentieth century and examines over 150 years of women’s employment history. With suggestions for research topics, an annotated bibliography to aid further research, and a chronology of important events which places the subject in a broader historical context, Gerry Holloway considers how factors such as class, age, marital status, race and locality, along with wider economic and political issues, have affected women’s job opportunities and status. Key themes and issues that run through the book include: continuity and change the sexual division of labour women as a cheap labour force women’s perceived primary role of motherhood women and trade unions equality and difference education and training. Students of women’s studies, gender studies and history will find this a fascinating and invaluable addition to their reading material.
Author | : Julia Bush |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2000-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780718500610 |
Bush (arts and social sciences, Nene University College, Northampton) analyzes aristocratic and upper-middle-class women's involvement in imperialist associations, and investigates their relationship with male imperialist leaders and the male-dominated patriotic leagues during the early 20th century. She also looks at their work with female emigration, education, colonial hospitality, and imperial race- thinking. She concludes that personal motivation, organizational methods, and patriotic faith were embedded in a social and political context that empowered elite women in selective, gender-related ways.
Author | : Kathryn Gleadle |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 251 |
Release | : 2017-09-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1403937540 |
This highly original synthesis is a clear and stimulating assessment of nineteenth-century British women. It aims to provide students with an in-depth understanding of the key historiographical debates and issues, placing particular emphasis upon recent, revisionist research. The book highlights not merely the ideologies and economic circumstances which shaped women's lives, but highlights the sheer diversity of women's own experiences and identities. In so doing, it presents a positive but nuanced interpretation of women's roles within their own families and communities, as well as stressing women's enormous contribution to the making of contemporary British culture and society.
Author | : Geoffrey Russell Searle |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780198206989 |
How could Victorian capitalist values be harmonized with Christian beliefs and concepts of public morality and social duty? This book explores ideas about citizenship and public virtue and how public morality was reconciled with the market.
Author | : George K. Behlmer |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780804734899 |
This volume explores the appropriation of the past in modern British culture. The twelve essays argue that to distinguish between "the new" and "the traditional" today often draws a false dichotomy. It argues that Britishness, in fact, has been the product of continuous creation throughout the 19th and 20th centuries.
Author | : Sue Morgan |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 2010-06-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1136972331 |
This volume is the first comprehensive overview of women, gender and religious change in modern Britain spanning from the evangelical revival of the early 1800s to interwar debates over women’s roles and ministry. This collection of pieces by key scholars combines cross-disciplinary insights from history, gender studies, theology, literature, religious studies, sexuality and postcolonial studies. The book takes a thematic approach, providing students and scholars with a clear and comparative examination of ten significant areas of cultural activity that both shaped, and were shaped by women’s religious beliefs and practices: family life, literary and theological discourses, philanthropic networks, sisterhoods and deaconess institutions, revivals and preaching ministry, missionary organisations, national and transnational political reform networks, sexual ideas and practices, feminist communities, and alternative spiritual traditions. Together, the volume challenges widely-held truisms about the increasingly private and domesticated nature of faith, the feminisation of religion and the relationship between secularisation and modern life. Including case studies, further reading lists, and a survey of the existing scholarship, and with a British rather than Anglo-centric approach, this is an ideal book for anyone interested in women's religious experiences across the nineteeth and twentieth centuries.
Author | : Marjorie Levine-Clark |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 2022-06-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1000523764 |
This volume explores the idea of unemployment, as nineteenth-century economists constructed the category ‘unemployment’, referring to a structural problem that caused ‘genuine workmen’ to be temporarily unemployed through no fault of their own. Sources examine how social thinkers and politicians put forward a range of arguments about the reasons for unemployment, the increasingly detailed categorization of people without work, and the growing movement to represent ‘labour’ both inside and outside Parliament, in large part to address the problem of unemployment. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, this volume will be of great interest to students of British History.