Women, Welfare and Local Politics, 1880-1920
'We Might be Trusted'
Held back by the property qualifications needed to vote and stand as candidates in a range of local elections, female activists and feminists nonetheless formed local pressure groups to make their voices heard. When the property qualification was removed in the 1890s, they staked their claim to a formal engagement in public life, and by the early 20th century there were over 1000 female poor law Guardians. This book offers a reappraisal of the role of women in the politics and practice of welfare in late Victorian and early Edwardian England. Focusing on the Lancashire mill town of Bolton, it traces the emergence of a core of female social an…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-84519-413-0
- EAN: 9781845194130
- Produktnummer: 6790832
- Verlag: Sussex Academic Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 364 S.
- Masse: H22.4 cm x B15.3 cm x D2.0 cm 546 g
- Abbildungen: tables & charts
- Gewicht: 546
Über den Autor
Steven King is a professor of economic history at the University of Leicester. He publishes widely on the history of British and European welfare, 1700-1920 and is the coauthor of The Poor in England 1700-1850: An Economy of Make-shifts.
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