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The Life and Turbulent Times of Clara Dorothea Rackham - Suffragist, Socialist, and Social Reformer (Hardcover)
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The Life and Turbulent Times of Clara Dorothea Rackham - Suffragist, Socialist, and Social Reformer (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Research in Gender and History
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This is the first critical study of Clara Dorothea Rackham nee
Tabor (1875-1966), a towering figure in the suffrage, labour,
co-operative, peace, and adult education movements but virtually
forgotten today. This clearly written and engaging study is based
on unpublished primary sources including Rackham's unpublished
speeches, letters, diaries, and contemporary media coverage of her
work in local and national archives. It reassesses this remarkable
woman not only as a politician who changed the face of Cambridge,
the university city in which she lived and worked, but also as a
public intellectual whose feminist advocacy of a fair, just, and
equal society helped pave the way to Britain's postwar settlement
and Welfare State. Rackham came to prominence as Chairman of the
National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, as a government
factory inspector, and championing the rights of unemployed women
in the 1930s. An early broadcaster on BBC radio, and among the
first women appointed magistrates and councillors, her name became
synonymous with enlightened local government. The transformation of
women's lives in Victorian and twentieth-century Britain is crucial
to understanding Rackham's ideals, intellectual formation, and
priorities as a Labour Party politician. This book will be of
interest to historians and students of gender, history, and women's
lives.
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