3 ‘One of the most revolutionary proposals that has ever been put before the House’
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Mari Takayanagi
Abstract
Mari Takayanagi’s chapter examines the Parliament (Qualification of Women) Act of November 1918 whose significance has been largely overlooked, all attention centring on the Act earlier that year which gave women over thirty (with a small property qualification) the right to vote. Takayanagi convincingly argues that the Act’s radicalism and contribution to gender equality needs greater recognition.
Abstract
Mari Takayanagi’s chapter examines the Parliament (Qualification of Women) Act of November 1918 whose significance has been largely overlooked, all attention centring on the Act earlier that year which gave women over thirty (with a small property qualification) the right to vote. Takayanagi convincingly argues that the Act’s radicalism and contribution to gender equality needs greater recognition.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Front matter i
- Contents v
- List of figures and tables vii
- Notes on contributors viii
- List of abbreviations xii
- Introduction 1
- 1 Peace, but not at any price 17
- 2 At the crossroads 35
- 3 ‘One of the most revolutionary proposals that has ever been put before the House’ 56
- 4 Labour and socialism during the First World War in Bristol and Northampton 73
- 5 A stronghold of liberalism? The north-east Lancashire cotton weaving districts and the First World War 91
- 6 Living through war, waging peace 108
- 7 ‘Industrial unionism for women’ 126
- 8 The unsung heroines of radical wartime activism 145
- 9 Charlie Chaplin’s war 166
- 10 Irish Labour and the ‘Co-operative Commonwealth’ in the era of the First World War 182
- 11 Russia’s war and revolutions as seen by Morgan Philips Price and Arthur Henderson 201
- 12 The Stanford connection 220
- 13 The problem of war aims and the Treaty of Versailles 240
- Index 257
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Front matter i
- Contents v
- List of figures and tables vii
- Notes on contributors viii
- List of abbreviations xii
- Introduction 1
- 1 Peace, but not at any price 17
- 2 At the crossroads 35
- 3 ‘One of the most revolutionary proposals that has ever been put before the House’ 56
- 4 Labour and socialism during the First World War in Bristol and Northampton 73
- 5 A stronghold of liberalism? The north-east Lancashire cotton weaving districts and the First World War 91
- 6 Living through war, waging peace 108
- 7 ‘Industrial unionism for women’ 126
- 8 The unsung heroines of radical wartime activism 145
- 9 Charlie Chaplin’s war 166
- 10 Irish Labour and the ‘Co-operative Commonwealth’ in the era of the First World War 182
- 11 Russia’s war and revolutions as seen by Morgan Philips Price and Arthur Henderson 201
- 12 The Stanford connection 220
- 13 The problem of war aims and the Treaty of Versailles 240
- Index 257
