Rethinking right-wing women :  gender and the Conservative Party, 1880s to the present / 
edited by Clarisse Berthezčne and Julie V. Gottlieb. 
 - Manchester :  Manchester University Press,  (c)2018. 
 - 1 online resource (xiii, 245 pages) :  illustrations. 
 - New perspectives on the Right .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>'Open the eyes of England': female unionism and conservatism, 1886-1914 /  Christabel Pankhurst: a convervative suffragette? /  At the heart of the party? The women's conservative organisation in the age of partial suffrage, 1914-28 /  Conservative women and the Primrose League's struggle for survival, 1914-32 /  Modes and models of conservative women's leadership in the 1930s /  The middlebrow and the making of a 'new common sense': women's voluntarism, conservative politics and representations of womanhood /  Churchill, women, and the politics of gender /  'The statutory woman whose main task was to explore what women ... were likely to think': Margaret Thatcher and women's politics in the 1950s and 1960s /  Conservatism, gender and the politics of everyday life, 1950s-1980s /  Feminist responses to Thatcher and Thatcherism /  The (feminised) contemporary Conservative Party /  Conserving conservative women: a view from the archives /  Women2Win and the feminisation of the UK Conservative Party /  Diane Urquhart --  June Purvis --  David Thackeray --  Matthew C. Hendley --  Julie V. Gottlieb --  Clarisse Berthezčne --  Richard Toye --  Krista Cowman --  Adrian Bingham --  Laura Beers --  Rosie Campbell and Sarah Childs --  Jeremy McIlwaine --  Baroness Anne Jenkin, introduction by Sarah Childs. 
<br/><br/> Rethinking Right-Wing Women explores the institutional structures for and the representations, mobilisation, and the political careers of women in the British Conservative Party since the late 19th century. From the Primrose League (est. 1883) to Women2Win (est. 2005), the party has exploited women's political commitment and their social power from the grass-roots to the heights of the establishment. Yet, although it is the party that extended the equal franchise, had the first woman MP to sit Parliament, and produced the first two women Prime Ministers, the UK Conservative Party has developed political roles for women that jar with feminist and progressive agendas. Conservative women have tended to be more concerned about the fulfilment of women's duties than the realisation of women's rights. This book tackles the ambivalences between women's politicisation and women's emancipation in the history of Britain's most electorally successful and hegemonic political party. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781526125194 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Corporate Names: </label><br/>Conservative Party (Great Britain)--History.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Women conservatives--History.--Great Britain<br/>Women--Political activity--History.--Great Britain<br/>Conservatism--History.--Great Britain
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>JN1129  / .R484 2018