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British Policewoman (Paperback)
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British Policewoman (Paperback)
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Loot Price R400
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Here, now fully updated for the twenty-first century, is the
complex and fascinating history of the formation of the British
Women Police. Full of drama, intrigue and humour, it also captures,
through well-authenticated primary material, the colour and manner
of the times. Remarkable women abound in this book, from the
wealthy and eccentric Margaret Damer Dawson to the
excitement-hungry ex-suffragette Mary Allen; and from the alluring
but ill-starred Mrs Stanley to the tireless Mrs Peto. A few famous
faces like Winston Churchill, Lady Astor and Adolf Hitler also
feature, as does the women police's arch-enemy: the magistrate
Frederick Mead. The pressure for the appointment of women police
began well before World War I. Anti-white-slave traffic
organizations felt they would help to stem the flow of prostitutes
to and from Europe and suffragettes wanted them to ensure fairer
treatment for women from the police and courts of law. But it was
the Great War that gave them a launching pad for their battle.
Early policewomen fought much public and police prejudice,
wondering all the time how far to hold out for their ideals and how
much to compromise for the sake of some official recognition; the
eternal problem when breaking new ground. Their story, which was
played out not only in the streets and courts of Great Britain and
the House of Commons but in a defeated Germany and strife-torn
1920s Ireland, as well as in prohibition-era USA, ended in victory
with their official integration into the force in the 1970s, but
the battle did not end there, as our story shows...
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