Women in Protest 1800-1850 Routledge Library Editions: Women's History Series
Auteurs : Thomis Malcolm I., Grimmett Jennifer
There is still much uncertainty about the role of nineteenth-century British women in social and political protest. As politics was a man?s world virtually all official accounts and statistics of popular protest deal only with the men involved. It is well known that women participated in food riots and mobilised support for Chartism, and as the dramatic changes in the economy during this period greatly increased the demand for women?s labour, this stimulated their widespread involvement in political and social agitation, particularly the parliamentary reform movement of 1819.
First published in 1982, this book provides a descriptive account of the part played by women ? mainly working class women ? in a variety of social and political activities that can broadly be categorised as protest. It establishes the basic outlines and offers an interpretation of the course of events.
1. Women’s Work and Women’s Protest, 1800-1850 2. Women in Food Riots 3. Women in Social Protest 4. Women in Industrial Protest 5. 'Petticoat Reformers' 6. Chartist Women 7. Postscript: Rebecca and Her Sisters
Date de parution : 10-2012
15.6x23.4 cm
Date de parution : 07-2014
15.6x23.4 cm
Thèmes de Women in Protest 1800-1850 :
Mots-clés :
Young Men; Lace Maker; American Labor History; Plug Plot Riots; American Women History; anti-Poor Law Movement; US Labor History; English Chartist Circular; US Labour History; Female Reform Societies; US Women History; Power Loom Weaving; women politics; Poor Man's Guardian; nineteenth century history; Swing Riots; social history; Handloom Weaving; nineteenth-century British women; Female Chartists; social and political protest; Newcastle Emlyn; women's labour; Rebecca Riots; social agitation; Female Reformers; Male Chartists; anti-Poor Law; Chartist Women; Food Rioting; Machine Breaking; Scotch Cattle; Female Attire; Male Reformers; Short Term Price Movements; Small Ware Weavers; Great Ancoats Street