Uncontrollable Women
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-45978-6 (ISBN)
"An insightful and inspiring history." BBC History Magazine
"A tantalising revelatory book." The House
"Brisk and illuminating." Times Literary Supplement
"A damn good read." Morning Star
"Wonderful." The Chartist
Uncontrollable Women is a history of radical, reformist and revolutionary women between the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789 and the passing of the Great Reform Act in 1832. Very few of them are well-known today; some were unknown even in their own day. All of them contributed something to the world we now inhabit.
At a time when women were supposed to leave politics to men they spoke, wrote, marched, organised, asked questions, challenged power structures, sometimes went to prison and even died. History has not usually been kind to them, and they have frequently been pushed into asides or footnotes, dismissed as secondary, or spoken over, for, or through by men and sometimes other women. In this book, they take centre stage in both their own stories and those of others, and in doing so bring different voices to the more familiar accounts of the period. These women and many others played a part in developing political ideas and freedoms as we know them today, and some fought battles which still remain to be won or raised questions that are still unresolved. These are their stories.
Nan Sloane is an author, speaker and trainer with an interest in the role of women in the public space, particularly in politics and the Labour Party. Her previous books include The Women In the Room: Labour’s Forgotten History (2018), In Our Own Words: A Dictionary of Women's Political Quotations (2016), and A Great Act of Justice: The Flapper Election and After (2009).
Illustrations
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Notes on Text
Introduction
Part One: Frantic ‘Midst the Democratic Storm
1: The Furies of Hell
2: A Wicked Little Democrat
3: Such Mighty Rage
Part Two: More Turbulent than the Men
1: Determined Enemies to Good Order
2: The Most Abandoned of Their Sex
3: Persistent Amazons
Part Three: Monsters in Female Form
1: Beyond Expression Horrible
2: This Infatuated Family
3: The She-Champion of Impiety
Part Four: Women Without Masters
1: Very Clever, Awfully Revolutionary
2: Petticoat Government
Epilogue: An Ignorant Woman
Bibliography
Notes
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 08.05.2024 |
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| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-350-45978-X / 135045978X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-45978-6 / 9781350459786 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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