Gender and political identities in Scotland, 1919-1939
Hughes, Annmarie201005UU
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This volume makes a major contribution to Scottish, British and comparative gender, women's and labour history by combining personal testimony methodology, socio-economic and cultural analysis to reveal the dynamics of gender within a society considered by historians to be extremely misogynist. This work offers a unique contribution to gender and Scottish history breaking new ground on several fronts: there is no history of inter-war women in Scotland, very little labour or popular political history and virtually nothing published on women, the home and family. This book is a history of women in the period which integrates class and gender history as well as linking the public and private spheres. Using a gendered approach to history it transforms and shifts our knowledge of the Scottish past, unearthing the previously unexplored role which women played in inter-war socialist politics, the General Strike and popular political protest. It re-evaluates these areas and demonstrates the ways in which gender shaped the experience of class and class struggle. Importantly, the book also explores the links between the public and private spheres and addresses the concept of masculinity as well as femininity and pays particular reference to domestic violence. The strength of the book is the ways in which it illuminates the complex interconnections of culture and economic and social structure. Although the research is based on Scottish evidence, it also uses material to address key debates in gender history and labour history which have wider relevance and will appeal to gender historians, labour historians and social and cultural historians as well as social scientists.
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Imprint:
Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press : 2010.
Collation:
248 p. : ill. ; 23x16x2 cm.
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Notes:
Hardback.
Audience:
Reading grade level: College Graduate Student and over.
Contents:
Introduction-- 1. Usurpers of men? Gender, work and political identities-- 2. Socialist women, the ILP and the politics of the kitchen-- 3. Class fragmentation, respectability, religion and residence-- 4. 'A docile workforce?' Women work and political identity-- 5. Socialist women, feminists and feminism-- 6. The politics of marriages of conflict-- 7. Marriage, mothering and political identity-- 8. Gender and the politics of everyday life-- Conclusion-- Bibliography.
Biography/History:
Annmarie Hughes is a lecturer in the Department of Economic and Social History, University of Glasgow. Her research interests are Scottish gender history between the wars. She has published articles on socialist women and the labour movement, domestic violence and Scottish masculinity and on feminism and socialist politics.
ISBN:
9780748639816 (hbk)0748639810 (hbk)
Dewey class:
305.409411
Language:
English
Subject:
Women -- History -- 20th century -- ScotlandWomen -- Political activity -- History -- 20th century -- ScotlandWomen -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- ScotlandSocial & cultural history -- Inter-war period, 1918-1939 -- ScotlandGender studies: women -- Inter-war period, 1918-1939 -- ScotlandBritish & Irish history -- Inter-war period, 1918-1939 -- Scotland20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 -- Inter-war period, 1918-1939 -- ScotlandHistoryScotland -- History -- 20th centuryScotland -- Politics and government -- 20th century
Index terms:
Scotland - History - 20th centuryScotland - Politics and government - 20th centuryWomen - Scotland - Social conditions - 20th centuryWomen - Political activity - Scotland - History - 20th centuryWomen - Scotland - History - 20th century
BRN:
4127269
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