Ladies Elect
Women in English Local Government, 1865-1914
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 20 July 1989
- ISBN 9780198221579
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages566 pages
- Size 218x138x32 mm
- Weight 709 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 12pp b/w halftones 0
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Short description:
Fifty years before the suffragettes fought to have the parliamentary vote, women in England were able to elect and be elected to local district councils, school boards, and Poor Law boards. This pioneering study explores the world of those women who held elected office, looking at the hostility they incited but also their success.
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Fifty years before the suffragettes fought to have the parliamentary vote, women in England were able to elect and be elected to local district councils, school boards and Poor Law boards. This pioneering study explores the world of those women who held office on behalf of other women, children, the old and the sick. They faced widespread hostility, but such was their success that in many cities and counties they were a stronger presence in 1900 than in 1975. Local government offered that conjunction of "compulsory philanthropy", "municipal housekeeping" and local responsibility which made it a sphere suitable for women. Based on the records of some 20 towns and 10 rural districts, Ladies Elect describes and assesses their work in local government before 1914, and places it in the context of the general movement towards woman's emancipation.
Review from previous edition Ladies Elect fills a major gap in the literature on Victorian and Edwardian women and is likely to remain the standard work on women in English local government.
Table of Contents:
Philanthropists, Electors, and Party Activists
EDUCATION
The London School Board 1870-1904
English Provincial School Boards 1870-1903
The Election of Ladies 1875-1914
The Work of Women Guardians 1875-1914
WOMEN IN COUNCIL
Women and the Government of London 1888-1900
Rural Life and Local Government 1894-1914
Women and Town Councils 1907-1914
Council Work 1907-1914: A Suitable Job for a Woman?
Local Government and the Women's Movement
