176 Pages
by
Routledge
170 Pages
by
Routledge
176 Pages
by
Routledge
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There is still much uncertainty about the role of nineteenth-century British women in social and political protest. As politics was a man’s world virtually all official accounts and statistics of popular protest deal only with the men involved. It is well known that women participated in food riots and mobilised support for Chartism, and as the dramatic changes in the economy during this period... Read more
1. Women’s Work and Women’s Protest, 1800-1850 2. Women in Food Riots 3. Women in Social Protest 4. Women in Industrial Protest 5. 'Petticoat Reformers' 6. Chartist Women 7. Postscript: Rebecca and Her Sisters
Biography
Malcolm I. Thomis and Jennifer Grimmett
