1st Edition

Feminism and Feminists After Suffrage

Edited By Julie Gottlieb Copyright 2016
194 Pages
by Routledge

194 Pages
by Routledge

186 Pages
by Routledge

What happened in women’s history after the vote was won? Was the suffragette spirit quashed by the advent of the First World War, and due to the achievement of women’s partial (1918) and then equal (1928) suffrage thereafter, by having to wait to be reclaimed by the Women’s Liberation Movement only in the late 1960s? This collection explores how individual feminists and the feminist movement... Read more

1. Introduction: ‘flour power’ and feminism between the waves Julie V. Gottlieb

2. Christabel Pankhurst and the Smethwick Election: right-wing feminism, the Great War and the ideology of consumption Nicoletta F. Gullace

3. Overcoming Inner Division: post-suffrage strategies in the organised German women's movement Ingrid Sharp

4. Political Life in the Shadows: the post suffrage political career of S. Margery Fry (1874–1958) Anne Logan

5. ‘The Injustice of the Woman's Vote’: opposition to female suffrage after World War I Florence Binard

6. Women as Active Citizens: Glasgow and Edinburgh c.1918–1939 Esther Breitenbach and Valerie Wright

7. ‘Our Freedom and Its Results’: measuring progress in the aftermath of suffrage Maria DiCenzo

8. ‘The Women's Movement Took the Wrong Turning’: British feminists, pacifism and the politics of appeasement Julie V. Gottlieb

9. Fighting for the ‘Privileges of Citizenship’: the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA), feminism and the women's movement, 1928–1945 Caitríona Beaumont

10. The ‘Great Offender’: feminists and the campaign for women's ordination Jessica Thurlow

Biography

Julie V. Gottlieb is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Sheffield, UK. She has published widely in the field of political and British women’s history, including Feminine Fascism: Women in Britain’s Fascist Movement, 1923-45; The Aftermath of Suffrage, co-edited with Richard Toye; and Guilty Women: Gender, Foreign Policy and Appeasement in Britain between the wars (forthcoming, 2015).