Caitriona Beaumont

Housewives and citizens (eBook, ePUB)

Domesticity and the women's movement in England, 1928-64

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

After an extremely successful debut in hardback, Housewives and citizens is now available in paperback for the first time. This book explores the contribution that five conservative, voluntary and popular women's organisations made to women's lives and to the campaign for women's rights throughout the period 1928-64.

The book challenges existing histories of the women's movement that suggest the movement went into decline during the inter-war period, only to be revived by the emergence of the Women's Liberation Movement in the late 1960s. It is argued that the term 'women's movement' must be revised to allow a broader understanding of female agency encompassing feminist, political, religious and conservative women's groups who campaigned to improve the status of women throughout the twentieth century. The book provides a radical re-assessment of this period of women's history and in doing so makes a significant contribution to ongoing debates about the shape and impact of the women's movement in twentieth-century Britain.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: CABI
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781784991951
• Artikelnr.: 57473499

Autorenporträt

Caitríona Beaumont is Principal Lecturer in Social History at London South Bank University

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Origins and aspirations: voluntary women's organisations
and the representation of housewives, mothers and citizens 2. Housewives
and citizens: the rights and duties of women citizens 3. Moral dilemmas:
divorce, birth control and abortion 4. Welfare rights for women: maternity
care, social welfare benefits and family allowances 5. Active citizenship
for women: war and protest 6. Housewives and citizens: post-war planning
and the post-war years 7. Domesticity, modernity and women's rights:
voluntary women's organisations and the women's movement 1950-64 Conclusion
Bibliography Index