Labour Women in Power Cabinet Ministers in the Twentieth Century /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Bartley, Paula (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Θέματα: History.; Great Britain-History.; Identity politics.; Women.; World politics.; Popular Science in History.; History of Britain and Ireland.; Politics and Gender.; Women's Studies.; Political History.

'It is really shocking that the earliest women Cabinet Ministers have almost been forgotten. Most haven't heard of Margaret Bondfield - the first. Many have heard of Ellen Wilkinson, but few know she was a Cabinet Minister. Judith Hart is almost lost. Not so Barbara Castle and Shirley Will...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: A Woman in a Man's World: Margaret Bondfield's Early Career, 1873-1929
• Chapter 3: Over the Glass Cliff: The First Female Cabinet Minister, 1929-1953
• Chapter 4: The Mighty Atom: Ellen Wilkinson, 1891-1945
• Chapter 5: The First Female Minister of Education, 1945-1947
• Chapter 6: A Political Apprenticeship: Barbara Castle, 1910-1964
• Chapter 7: In and Out of Cabinet, 1964-2002
• Chapter 8: From Burnley to Lanark: Judith Hart, 1924-1968
• Chapter 9: The First Woman Paymaster General and Beyond, 1968-1991
• Chapter 10: Climbing the Parliamentary Ladder: Shirley Williams, 1930-1974
• Chapter 11: In the Cabinet and Out of Labour, 1974-2018
• Chapter 12: Conclusion.