Women and the Women’s Movement in Britain, 1914–1999

Abstract

Women and the women's movement before 1914; the impact of the Great War; strategy and tactics of the women's movement in the 1920s; the anti-feminist reaction; the domestication of British politics; the political containment of women, 1918-1939; the cult of domesticity in the 1930s; the new feminism and the decline of the women's movement in the 1930s; women in World War II; the nadir of British feminism 1945-1959?; women's liberation; feminism in the era of Thatcherism, 1979-1999.