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The Munich Crisis of 1938 had major diplomatic as well as personal
and psychological repercussions. As much as it was a climax in the
clash between dictatorship and democracy, it was also a People's
Crisis and an event that gripped and worried the people around the
world. The traditional approach has been to examine the crisis from
the vantage points of high politics and diplomacy. Traditional
approaches have failed to acknowledge the profound social, cultural
and psychological impacts of diplomatic events, an imbalance that
is redressed in this volume. Taking a range of national examples
and using a variety of methods, The Munich Crisis, Politics and the
People recreates the experience of living through the crisis in
Czechoslovakia, Germany, France, Britain, Hungary, the Soviet Union
and the USA. -- .
What happened in women's history after the vote was won? Was the
suffragette spirit quashed by the advent of the First World War,
and due to the achievement of women's partial (1918) and then equal
(1928) suffrage thereafter, by having to wait to be reclaimed by
the Women's Liberation Movement only in the late 1960s? This
collection explores how individual feminists and the feminist
movement as a whole responded to the achievement of the central
goal of votes for women. For many, the post-suffrage years were
anti-climactic, and there is no disputing that the movement was in
numerical decline, struggling to appeal to a younger generation of
women who knew nothing of the sacrifices that had been made to
secure their citizenship rights and new freedoms. However,
feminists went in new and different directions, identifying
pressing issues from pacifism to religious reform, from local
activism to party politics. Women also organised around causes that
were not explicitly feminist or were even anti-feminist, and this
book makes the important distinction between women in politics and
women's feminist activism. The range of feminist activism in the
aftermath of suffrage speaks for the successes and mainstreaming of
feminism, and contributors to this volume contest the narrative of
a terminal feminist decline between the wars. This book was
originally published as a special issue of Women's History Review.
What happened in women's history after the vote was won? Was the
suffragette spirit quashed by the advent of the First World War,
and due to the achievement of women's partial (1918) and then equal
(1928) suffrage thereafter, by having to wait to be reclaimed by
the Women's Liberation Movement only in the late 1960s? This
collection explores how individual feminists and the feminist
movement as a whole responded to the achievement of the central
goal of votes for women. For many, the post-suffrage years were
anti-climactic, and there is no disputing that the movement was in
numerical decline, struggling to appeal to a younger generation of
women who knew nothing of the sacrifices that had been made to
secure their citizenship rights and new freedoms. However,
feminists went in new and different directions, identifying
pressing issues from pacifism to religious reform, from local
activism to party politics. Women also organised around causes that
were not explicitly feminist or were even anti-feminist, and this
book makes the important distinction between women in politics and
women's feminist activism. The range of feminist activism in the
aftermath of suffrage speaks for the successes and mainstreaming of
feminism, and contributors to this volume contest the narrative of
a terminal feminist decline between the wars. This book was
originally published as a special issue of Women's History Review.
Is a charismatic leader also an effective one? What role do
commentators and historians have in shaping politicians' personae?
Making Reputations provides a major new assessment of the role of
individuals in British politics. The authors examine the
personalities and rhetoric of key figures, such as Gladstone,
Churchill, Thatcher and Blair, as well as shedding new light on
other neglected but significant individuals. Drawing on a variety
of methods from gender to cultural history, the book presents a
comprehensive examination of the relationship between the
individual and the pursuit, maintenance and execution of power.
Rethinking Right-Wing Women explores the institutional structures
for and the representations, mobilisation, and the political
careers of women in the British Conservative Party since the late
19th century. From the Primrose League (est.1883) to Women2Win
(est.2005), the party has exploited women's political commitment
and their social power from the grass-roots to the heights of the
establishment. Yet, although it is the party that extended the
equal franchise, had the first woman MP to sit Parliament, and
produced the first two women Prime Ministers, the UK Conservative
Party has developed political roles for women that jar with
feminist and progressive agendas. Conservative women have tended to
be more concerned about the fulfilment of women's duties than the
realisation of women's rights. This book tackles the ambivalences
between women's politicisation and women's emancipation in the
history of Britain's most electorally successful and hegemonic
political party. -- .
Is a charismatic leader also an effective one? What role do
commentators and historians have in shaping politicians' personae?
"Making Reputations" provides a major new assessment of the role of
individuals in British politics. The authors examine the
personalities and rhetoric of key figures, such as Gladstone,
Churchill, Thatcher and Blair, as well as shedding new light on
other neglected but significant individuals. Drawing on a variety
of methods from gender to cultural history, the book presents a
comprehensive examination of the relationship between the
individual and the pursuit, maintenance and execution of
power.
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