Women and citizenship in Britain and Ireland in the twentieth century : what difference did the vote make?

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Women and citizenship in Britain and Ireland in the twentieth century : what difference did the vote make?

edited by Esther Breitenbach and Pat Thane

Continuum, 2010

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-234) and index

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The continuing under-representation of women in political and public life remains a matter of concern across a wide range of countries, including the UK and Ireland. Within the UK it is a topical issue as political parties currently debate strategies, often controversial, which will increase women's representation. At the same time, devolution has ushered in significant change in the level of women's representation in Scotland and Wales and improved representation for women in Northern Ireland. That such increases in women's representation in political institutions have been slow in coming is indisputable, given that full enfranchisement of women on equal terms with men was achieved in Ireland in 1921 and in the UK in 1928.

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  • Introduction
  • 'Apathetic, parochial, conservative'? Women and elite/mass politics 1979 - present
  • Women in formal politics in Scotland, 1900 - 1990
  • Struggles for a voice and a place: women, parties and political representation 1979-present
  • Women, gender, nation and party: Wales 1918 - c. 1950
  • Devolution, State feminism and Engendering Policy - Progress and Challenges: Women's Political Representation in Wales
  • Representation in political institutions and political parties: Republic of Ireland
  • Conflicting rights: the struggle for female citizenship in Northern Ireland
  • Women, civil society and the state in England, c. 1900 - the present.
  • Women's organisations in civil society and their interaction with the state (c 1900 - c 1970)
  • Feminist Politics and Devolution (1970s to present)
  • Wales: from Women's Citizenship to Women's Liberation: two case studies
  • A fraught sisterhood?: Civil society organisations and women's voluntary activism in twentieth-century Ireland.

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