Rethinking Right-Wing Women (eBook)

Clarisse Berthezène is Lecturer at the University of Paris Diderot Julie V. Gottlieb is Reader in Modern History at the University of Sheffield

Introduction: Clarisse Berthezène & Julie Gottlieb
1. ‘Open the eyes of England’: female unionism and conservatism, 1886-1914 - Diane Urquhart
2. Christabel Pankhurst - A Conservative suffragette? - June Purvis
3. At the heart of the party? The women’s Conservative organisation in the age of partial suffrage, 1914-1928 - David Thackeray
4. Conservative women and the Primrose League’s struggle for survival, 1914-1932 - Matthew Hendley
5. Modes and models of Conservative women’s leadership in the 1930s - Julie Gottlieb
6. The middlebrow and the making of a ‘new common sense’: Women’s voluntarism, Conservative politics and representations of womanhood - Clarisse Berthezène
7. Churchill, women, and the politics of gender - Richard Toye
8. 'The Statutory Woman whose Main Task was to Explore what Women were Likely to Think.' Margaret Thatcher and Women's Politics in the 1950s and 1960s - Krista Cowman
9. Conservatism, gender and the politics of everyday life, 1950s-1980s - Adrian Bingham
10. Feminist responses to Thatcher and Thatcherism - Laura Beers
11. The (feminised) contemporary Conservative party - Rosie Campbell and Sarah Childs
12. Conserving Conservative women: A view from the archives - Jeremy McIlwaine
13. Women2Win and the feminization of the UK Conservative party - Baroness Ann Jenkin with an introduction by Sarah Childs