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{"title":"‘Work in the Housewives’ Service, like that of a household, seems never to be done’: the ‘practical politics’ of the Women’s Voluntary Service in the Second World War","authors":"Anna Muggeridge","doi":"10.1080/09612025.2023.2267249","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09612025.2023.2267249","url":null,"abstract":"The Women’s Voluntary Service (WVS) was established in 1938, to encourage women into civil defence ahead of the anticipated conflict. Once war began, it quickly expanded, with members engaging in a wide range of duties. Historians have characterised the WVS as an organisation dominated by middle-class women, but, while leadership was typically middle-class, at local level, membership was often more diverse. This article draws on the internal records of thirteen WVS Centres in the Black Country to suggest that the organisation was arguably more inclusive of a wider range of social classes than has previously been considered. It argues that working-class women were able to take on roles within the local public sphere through the very specific, localised and practical nature of the work the WVS undertook in this area. As such, it argues that the organisation played an important role in allowing women’s activism to flourish in the mid-twentieth century.","PeriodicalId":358940,"journal":{"name":"Women's History Review","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136294612","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Anne Knight (1786–1862) and the fight for women’s suffrage in the 1840s: political activism and multiple tactics","authors":"Tien-Yuan Chen","doi":"10.1080/09612025.2023.2266132","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09612025.2023.2266132","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTSince the 1980s, British feminist advocate Anne Knight has been acknowledged for her pioneering role in women’s suffrage propaganda. This article aims to rectify misinterpretations regarding Knight’s contribution by re-evaluating her actions and materials during the 1840s. It argues that her significance lies in creatively deploying established tactics from various social movements and diverse texts to invigorate the women’s suffrage cause, showcasing sustained commitment across diverse domains. This article is structured into four sections. Firstly, it provides a concise biography of Anne Knight, accompanied by an evaluation of previous studies. Secondly, by re-examining her feminist propaganda, it establishes that Knight’s role as a creator of the material, rather than the original author, does not diminish her creativity but underscores strategic adaptability in media use and translating discourse into action. Thirdly, through an exploration of her writings and practices, this article investigates the divergence within women’s suffrage activism in contemporary British society. Lastly, it delves into Knight’s discourse and actions during the French Second Republic, revealing her distinctive role and the broader significance of women’s collective struggle. In summary, this article unveils the intricate facets of Knight’s pioneering role, offering a nuanced understanding of early Victorian Britain’s women’s suffrage activism.KEYWORDS: Anne Knightsuffragepropagandaactivismfeminism AcknowledgementsI would like to thank Man-Yi Chin, Chien-Hui Li, and Tasi-Yeh Wang for their comments and generous help in the development of this research. I also extend my heartfelt thanks to Sharon Crozier-De Rosa and the anonymous reviewers at Women’s History Review for their invaluable insights and feedback on earlier drafts. Thanks also to Melissa Atkinson, Special Collections Curator at the Friends House Library for her assistance with the licensing documents. I am also grateful to the Department of History at National Taiwan University and the Women’s and Gender Research Programme, whose scholarships funded the completion of this research.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 Anne Knight, Annotated copy of ‘A Plea for Woman by Mrs. Hugo Reid’, in MS vol. s495, Friends House Library, London (hereafter, ‘FHL’), 95.2 For more discussion on the ‘age of reform’, see Joanna Innes and Arthur Burns, ‘Introduction’, in Rethinking the Age of Reform: Britain 1780–1850, ed. Arthur Burns and Joanna Innes (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), 1–2.3 See the next section for further discussion of feminist chronology.4 Nancy A. Hewitt, ‘From Seneca Falls to Suffrage? Reimagining a “Master” Narrative in U.S. Women’s History’, in No Permanent Waves Recasting Histories of U.S. Feminism, ed. Nancy A. Hewitt (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2010), 32.5 For Knight’s biography, see Gail Malmgreen, ‘Anne K","PeriodicalId":358940,"journal":{"name":"Women's History Review","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135197778","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Ireland’s New Traditionalists: Fianna Fáil republicanism and gender, 1926–1938 <b>Ireland’s New Traditionalists: Fianna Fáil republicanism and gender, 1926–1938</b> , by Kenneth Shonk, Cork, Cork University Press, 2021, xii+, 240 pages, £35.00/ €39.00, ISBN-10: 1782054391","authors":"Jennifer Redmond","doi":"10.1080/09612025.2023.2256565","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09612025.2023.2256565","url":null,"abstract":"\"Ireland’s New Traditionalists: Fianna Fáil republicanism and gender, 1926–1938.\" Women's History Review, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2","PeriodicalId":358940,"journal":{"name":"Women's History Review","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135149728","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Redress: Ireland’s institutions and transitional justice","authors":"Kate Gibson","doi":"10.1080/09612025.2023.2256525","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09612025.2023.2256525","url":null,"abstract":"\"Redress: Ireland’s institutions and transitional justice.\" Women's History Review, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2","PeriodicalId":358940,"journal":{"name":"Women's History Review","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136071890","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Fearless women: feminist patriots from Abigail Adams to Beyoncé","authors":"Ahmed Nabil Bensedik","doi":"10.1080/09612025.2023.2256513","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09612025.2023.2256513","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":358940,"journal":{"name":"Women's History Review","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136072257","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Distant sisters. Australasian women and the international struggle for the vote, 1880-1914","authors":"Sharon Crozier-De Rosa","doi":"10.1080/09612025.2021.1907019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09612025.2021.1907019","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":358940,"journal":{"name":"Women's History Review","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116513659","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Beyond suffrage: the role of Cuban women in the state-building years of a failed democracy (1940–1952)","authors":"Manuel Ramírez Chicharro","doi":"10.1080/09612025.2017.1359875","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09612025.2017.1359875","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT During the first third of the twentieth century, several women joined associations to promote legal reforms. Between 1917 and 1934, the Cuban Parliament passed laws regarding women’s legal status, therefore challenging the traditional relations between state, Church and family inherited from the colonial period. Although the Constitution of 1940 incorporated these measures, Cuban women barely took part in state institutions, but their increasing presence in public affairs marked a turning point in their social status. A few women were appointed as Cuban representatives to international organizations, and political parties set up female auxiliaries. Moreover, several women’s associations worked for peace, demanded improvements in the healthcare system, took action towards enhancing education in rural areas and pushed for effective reform of the Civic Code in order to provide equal rights for men and women. African-Cuban women’s participation in these organizations was limited due to discrimination and they in turn set up their own organizations.","PeriodicalId":358940,"journal":{"name":"Women's History Review","volume":"43 5","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132783104","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"‘The time of storms’: managing bourgeois girls’ puberty in France, 1800–1870","authors":"Christina de Bellaigue","doi":"10.1080/09612025.2017.1381066","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09612025.2017.1381066","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article examines the medical literature published in France in the period 1800–1870 on the subject of puberty and menstruation to argue that, in conjunction with the extension of school life for bourgeois girls, the period saw the emergence of a distinctive conception of feminine adolescence that pre-dates the better-known concepts articulated in the late nineteenth century. It goes on to look beyond the scientific discourse to ask what impact this new medical understanding had on the management of girls’ puberty, examining first the way it affected school practice, before using a detailed case-study of the life of Solange Dudevant to highlight the ways in which medicalised understandings of puberty and menstruation co-existed with other forms of knowledge.","PeriodicalId":358940,"journal":{"name":"Women's History Review","volume":"114 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124781040","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Women's History in Many Places: reflections on plurality, diversity and polyversality","authors":"J. de Groot","doi":"10.1080/09612025.2016.1250528","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09612025.2016.1250528","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This piece addresses the key questions posed by Chen Yan and Karen Offen in their joint position paper on the current state of women's history and its place at the cutting edge of historical practice. Having made the case that women's and gender history has had a significant and multi-level impact (empirical, conceptual, methodological and theoretical) on that practice, my article observes that acknowledgement of this is still very limited among those not centrally involved in the field. It notes the tensions between the aspiration both to identify and pursue women's and gender history as discrete fields of scholarly endeavour and the aspiration for women and gender to be treated as topics/categories which should be constitutive of all historical inquiry. It goes on to consider the relationship of women's history to gender history, to post-colonial and cross-cultural scholarship, and to recent work in spatial histories. It argues that in the first case the two approaches are mutually reinforcing, and that in the other two cases women's and gender history has been at the leading edge of these developing fields and is uniquely positioned to make innovative contributions there. The capacity of women's and gender history to continue as a leading edge area of historical practice will be grounded in its ongoing commitment to reflexivity about problems and limitations in the field, and to sustaining its key insights into the links between the personal and the structural, the global and the local, and the material and the cultural.","PeriodicalId":358940,"journal":{"name":"Women's History Review","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122497149","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Julie Christie, by Melanie Bell","authors":"Julie Lobalzo Wright","doi":"10.1080/09612025.2016.1248045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09612025.2016.1248045","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":358940,"journal":{"name":"Women's History Review","volume":"74 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129723390","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}