History essay: the History of Women in Britain, 1750-1950 part 3

History essay: the History of Women in Britain, 1750-1950 part 3

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Women had been political actors long before achieving their vote. Their political involvement was strictly related to their social class and became more transversal with the suffrage campaign at the end of the nineteenth century. In England, ‘elite women played a greater part in the political life of the nation than anywhere else in Europe’[1] and their qualities in canvassing, campaigning and managing the political dynamics were widely appreciated by their candidates. Middle class and working class women were often politicized through their roles as mother and wife, as we have seen, for example, in the Anti-Corn Campaign and in the Chartism Movement because the division between public and private was highly demarcated, above all in the nineteenth century. This did not mean that women’s political roles were ‘indirect, unaccountable and unquantifiable’.[2] Sometimes the division between female and male spheres was hard to identify. Often, in fact, the ways of campaigning and fundraising, although public activities, were completely feminine modes like the bazaar in the Anti-Corn-Law Campaign C129.[3] Women became aware of the potential power they could have as the female group responsible of the domestic sphere, both as moral judges of the public events that could threaten households’ stability, and as consumers through the boycott of specific products. The suffrage movement conclusively demanded a different women’s role in the society adopting, in the early twentieth century, new forms of social struggle clearly in contrast with normal accepted female behaviour. Generally, women’s political involvement, through the centuries, demonstrated how different female roles in society could be, compared to their earlier traditional roles.[4]

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

- Hall, Catherine. White, Male and Middle Class: Explorations in Feminism and History (Cambridge, 1992).

- Wahrman, Dror. ‘“Middle Class” Domesticity Goes Public: Gender, Class, and Politics from Queen Caroline to Queen Victoria’, Journal of British Studies 32 (1993), pp.396-432.

- Clark, Anna. The Struggle for the Breeches: Gender and the Making of the British Working Class (London, 1995).

- Mayhall, Laura Nym. ‘Creating the “Suffragette Spirit”: British feminism and the historical imagination’, Women’s History Review 4 (1995), pp. 319-344.

- Caine, Barbara. English Feminism (Oxford, 1997).

- Foreman, Amanda. ‘A Politician’s Politician: Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire and the Whig Party’, in Hannah Barker and Elaine Chalus (eds), Gender in Eighteenth-Century England: Roles, Representation and Responsibilities (Harlow, 1997), pp.179-204.

- Chalus, Elaine. ‘“That epidemical Madness”: Women and Electoral Politics in the Late Eighteenth Century’, in Hannah Barker and Elaine Chalus (eds), Gender in Eighteenth-Century England: Roles, Representation and Responsibilities (Harlow, 1997), pp. 151-178.

- Chalus, Elaine. ‘Elite Women, Social Politics, and the Political World of late Eighteenth-Century England’, The Historical Journal 43:3 (2000), pp. 669-697.

- Morgan, Simon. ‘Domestic Economy and Political Agitation: Women and the Anti-Corn Law League, 1839-46’, in Kathryn Gleadle and Sarah Richardson (eds), Women in British Politics, 1760-1860: the Power of the Petticoat (Basingstoke, 2000), pp. 115-133.

- Chalus, Elaine and Montgomery, Fiona. ‘Women and Politics’, in Hannah Barker and Elaine Chalus (eds), Women’s History: Britain, 1700-1850. An introduction (London, 2005), pp. 217-259.

[1] Foreman, ‘A Politician’s Politician’, p. 179.
[2] Chalus, ‘“That epidemical Madness”’, p. 152.
[3] Morgan, ‘Domestic Economy and Political Agitation’, pp.129.
[4] Chalus and Montgomery, ‘Women and Politics’, p. 249.