Women, Power, and Politics in Britain, 1945-1997
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-891330-6 (ISBN)
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This volume explores the priorities and hopes, strategies and campaigns, and achievements and failures of women who sought to shape British politics in different ways across the half century between the Attlee and Blair governments. It examines two central questions: what impact did women have on British politics in the second half of the twentieth century? And what did politics mean to women themselves?
The authors argue that women were able to create significant political change, often discreet, gradual, behind-the-scenes, and longer term. But it happened nonetheless, forming new crevices, shorelines, and promontories on the map of British politics, and shifting the terrain for men as well as women. This change should not be underestimated, even when its limitations are clear.
They also note that there was no revolutionary or dramatic change in women's political involvement across this period. The impact of women's political activity was uneven, and its influence did not go as far as advocates hoped. But cumulatively, women's efforts have profound and far-reaching consequences for conventional politics as well as for women's lives. This exploration demonstrates that British political history can be enriched and enlivened by greater attention to women and gender, and political history must continue to be an important part of women's history.
Chapter 9 is open access and available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
Ruth Davidson is an Institute of Historical Research Fellow 2024/5 at the Institute of Historical Research, London. She has published widely on gender, politics, voluntary action, and social policy. She is currently completing her first monograph, Women's Welfare Activism: Everyday Power and Politics in Twentieth-century Britain (Manchester University Press, forthcoming). Farah Hussain is a political science PhD researcher at Queen Mary, University of London. Farah's research focuses on the experience of Muslim women in local politics, especially the Labour Party. Alongside her research, she works in Parliament and was previously a local councillor in London 2014-2022. Lyndsey Jenkins is associate professor and tutorial fellow in history at Mansfield College Oxford. She is a historian of women, politics, and activism in Britain in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries with a particular interest in feminism and socialism. She has held teaching positions at Kings College, London and the University of Reading, as well as various Oxford colleges. Anna Muggeridge is a historian of women's activism in twentieth-century Britain. She held a variety of teaching posts at the University of Worcester before securing a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship in 2024. She is currently completing her first monograph, on women and local government in the interwar years, and undertaking her FLF, entitled 'Voices of Motherhood: A History of Maternal Activism from the Women's Co-Operative Guild to Pregnant then Screwed'.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 27.7.2026 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-891330-3 / 0198913303 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-891330-6 / 9780198913306 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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