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Title:

Women, privilege, and power : British politics, 1750 to the present / edited by Amanda Vickery.

Publisher:

Stanford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2001

Description:

x, 413 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Women in politics--Great Britain--History.
Great Britain--Politics and government

Other Authors:

Vickery, Amanda.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

"To serve my friends": women and political patronage in eighteenth-century England / Elaine Chalus -- 1784 and all that: aristocratic women and electoral politics / Judith S. Lewis -- British women and radical politics in the last nonconformist enlightenment, c. 1780-1830 / Kathryn Gleadle -- From Almack's to Willis's: aristocratic women and politics, 1815-1867 / Peter Mandler -- John Stuart Mill, liberal politics, and the movements for women's suffrage, 1865-1873 / Jane Rendall -- Contesting the male polity: the suffragettes and the politics of disruption in Edwardian England / Jon Lawrence -- The privilege of power: suffrage women and the issue of men's support / Angela V. John -- What difference did the vote make? / Pat Thane -- "Behind every great party": women and conservatism in twentieth-century Britain / David Jarvis.

Series:

The Making of modern freedom

ISBN:

9780804742849 (acid-free paper)
0804742847 (acid-free paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)45890401

LCCN:

2001020017

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)