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|aCollette, Christine.
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|aThe newer Eve|h[electronic resource] :|bwomen, feminists and the Labour Party /|cChristine Collette.
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|aBasingstoke ;|aNew York :|bPalgrave Macmillan,|c2009.
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|aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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|aFoundation of the Women's Labour League -- Consolidation of the Women's Labour League -- EnidStacy, Marion Barry, Clarice McNab Shaw -- First World War -- The Standing Joint Committee in the Inter War Years --Bronwen Tall Brittain, Florence Davy and Mary Sutherland -- International Organization -- Irene Wagner and Ellen Wilkinson -- War and Post War -- The National Joint Committee from the1960s -- The National Joint Committee in the 1980s -- Joining the Parliamentary Road.
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|aFeminist theory is interwoven with women's voices in this study of three consecutive Twentieth-century women's organisations, separate frombut affiliated to the Labour Party, starting with the Women's Labour League (1906-1918) and concluding in 1993. The Newer Eve looks at how the women's leaders tried to balance a socialist feminist program with the Party's national programs and the mostlymiddle-class feminist movements. As these organisations represented women workers, consumers and politicians, so the totality of women's involvement in the Labour movement is considered. Women's labour market position and how this affected their participation in the Labour movement is discussed, alongside the affect of war on political organisation. With a subject matter of continuing importance and relevance, it provides new insights into the LabourParty, engaging with its development from itsfirst secretary and Labour's first Prime Minister, Ramsay MacDonald to Tony Blair's New Labour.Insisting that Labour Party differences be recognised, both over time and in locality, Collette concluesby using post-modern thought to evaluate the future possibility of a Labour/feminist axis.
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|aElectronic reproduction.|bBasingstoke, England :|cPalgrave Macmillan,|d2010.|nMode of access:World Wide Web.|nSystem requirements: Web browser.|nTitle from title screen (viewed on Jan. 11, 2010).|nAccess may be restricted to users at subscribing institutions.
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|aLabour Party (Great Britain)|xHistory.
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|aWomen labor union members|zGreat Britain|xHistory|y20th century.
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