Nan Sloane

Uncontrollable Women

Radicals, Reformers and Revolutionaries

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Produktbeschreibung

Using inspirational, individual stories of female political pioneers from the 1800's, Nan Sloane explores the period in which women began to enter the public space to seek change

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 141mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 388g
• ISBN-13: 9781350459786
• ISBN-10: 135045978X
• Artikelnr.: 69674815

Autorenporträt

Nan Sloane is an author, speaker and trainer with an interest in the role of women in the public space, particularly in politics and the Labour Party. Her books include Uncontrollable Women: Radicals, Reformers and Revolutionaries (2022), The Women In the Room: Labour's Forgotten History (2018), In Our Own Words: A Dictionary of Women's Political Quotations (2016), and A Great Act of Justice: The Flapper Election and After (2009).

Inhaltsangabe

Illustrations Foreword Acknowledgements Notes on Text Introduction Part
One: Frantic 'Midst the Democratic Storm 1: The Furies of Hell 2: A Wicked
Little Democrat 3: Such Mighty Rage Part Two: More Turbulent than the Men
1: Determined Enemies to Good Order 2: The Most Abandoned of Their Sex 3:
Persistent Amazons Part Three: Monsters in Female Form 1: Beyond Expression
Horrible 2: This Infatuated Family 3: The She-Champion of Impiety Part
Four: Women Without Masters 1: Very Clever, Awfully Revolutionary 2:
Petticoat Government Epilogue: An Ignorant Woman Bibliography Notes Index

Rezensionen

A compelling study [that] celebrates the working class pioneers of female emancipation who have been overlooked.