TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jane Rendall.
AU  - Jane Rendall.
TI  - Equal or different: : women's politics 1800-1914
SN  - 0631145230
U1  - 305.420 REN 
PY  - 1987///
CY  - Oxford [Oxfordshire], UK ; New York, NY, USA 
PB  - : Basil Blackwell
KW  - Political activity
KW  - Feminism
KW  - Women
KW  - Great Britain
N1  - Introduction / Jane Rendall --
Part 1. Cottage religion and the politics of survival / Deborah Valenze --
Women, work and politics in nineteenth-century England : The problem of authority / Dorothy Thompson --
'A burning zeal for righteousness' : Women in the British anti-slavery movement, 1820-1860 / Louis Billington and Rosamund Billington --
'A moral engine'? Feminism, liberalism and the English Woman's Journal / Jane Rendall --
Part 2. The married woman, the 'new woman' and the feminist : Sexual politics of the 1890s / Lucy Bland --
Party political women : A comparative study of liberal women and the Primrose League, 1890-1914 / Linda Walker --
Women in council : Separate spheres, public space / Patricia Hollis --
'In the comradeship of the sexes lies the hope of progress and social regeneration' : Women in the West Riding ILP, c1890-1914 / June Hannam
N2  - Explores the reasons why women entered public life in 19th- and early 20th-century Britain. The contributors discuss women's involvement in political parties, the labour movement and local government
ER  -