Laura Schwartz
Biographic Data
| ID | 172633 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura Schwartz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura |
| FAMILY NAME | Schwartz |
| SIGNATURE | SCHWARTZ L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Warwick |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3550-7912 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Ordinary working-class people? Labour history and ‘Brexit Britain’
This article introduces the special issue ‘Ordinary Working-Class People? Labour History and “Brexit Britain”’. We argue that Brexit was a phenomenon around which a particular form of gendered and racialised class politics crystallised, which subsequently played an important role in the 2019 General Election. The article sets out the rhetorical, material and geographical terrain on which this right-wing vision of class became a powerful force in …
The gender politics of the ‘white working class’
This article historicises a short period of contemporary British history—roughly 2016–2020—when the spectre of ‘the working class’ returned to mainstream politics. While scholars have critiqued this new class politics for privileging identity and culture over material conditions (especially its racial and racist coding), its gender politics have yet to be explored. I argue that the gendering of the British working class as male as well as white w…
Acceptability and feasibility of a family-inclusive, community-based lifestyle and mindfulness program for Latinx adolescents at risk for type 2 diabetes
History Workshop for Turbulent Times Working-Class History in a Populist Age
This article considers the politics and possibilities of writing labour history in a context where 'the working class' has been so effectively co-opted and interpellated by the populist right. What might working-class and labour history tell us about the uses of class in the twenty-first century? How might we think anew about that historiographical tradition in light of right-wing mobilizations of 'the working class'? What sort of working class h…
Feminism, reproductive labour, and the gendered welfare state in Britain's National Insurance Act of 1911
In 1911, numerous women's organizations, of varying political interests, mounted a campaign against the National Insurance Bill. Such opposition emerged despite feminist support for increased welfare provision in general and especially for the maternity benefit that the Bill proposed to introduce. Feminists criticized National Insurance for discriminating against women, especially its failure to recognize the economic contribution of women's unwa…
Identification of facilitators and barriers of healthy living and type 2 diabetes prevention among Latinx families
Youth-onset type 2 diabetes (T2D) is on the rise and may be associated with more adverse health outcomes than adult onset. Latinx adolescents are disproportionately at risk for T2D yet are underrepresented in prevention efforts. Extant interventions to prevent T2D in Latinx adolescents show limited effectiveness. Comprehensive understanding of Latinx adolescent/family needs is lacking, but necessary for cultural tailoring of T2D prevention. Resea…
Infidel feminism
Enchanted Modernity, Anglicanism and the Occult in Early Twentieth-Century Oxford
In August 1901, two respectable, unmarried Edwardian ladies travelled backwards in time. On a sightseeing trip to the Court of Versailles, Annie Moberly and Eleanor Jourdain were transported back to 1792 where they encountered the soon-to-be-executed Queen Marie Antoinette. In 1911 they recounted their experiences in An Adventure, a book that was widely reviewed and ran to many editions. Throughout these episodes and their telling Moberly and Jou…
In Search of the New Woman
In the 1890s, journalists and fiction writers turned their attention to the figure of the New Woman. She was commonly depicted as a university graduate, a cigarette-smoking bohemian, and even as a ‘free love’ ‘sex radical’. The New Woman was understood as both product and instigator of new rights and freedoms campaigned for by a growing feminist movement in the second half of the nineteenth century. Gillian Sutherland views this fin-de-siècle ‘fe…
Gender, Crime and Modernity
Orgies, murderous wives, cocaine addiction, drug-dealing, virgin births, adultery and divorce make up the sensational subject matter of the five trials examined in Lucy Bland’s book. Taking place between 1918 and 1924, each of the trials centred on women perceived to embody postwar modernity – a modernity implicated in the ‘deviant’ sexual practices subjected to such close scrutiny by both the courts and the press. Bland sets out to use this seri…
A Job Like Any Other? Feminist Responses and Challenges to Domestic Worker Organizing in Edwardian Britain
This article focuses on the Domestic Workers’ Union of Great Britain and Ireland (est. 1909–1910), a small, grassroots union organized by young female domestic servants in the years leading up to the First World War. This union emerged against a backdrop of labor unrest as well as an increasingly militant women's movement. The article looks at how the Domestic Workers’ Union drew inspiration from the latter but also encountered hostility from som…
Mood and anxiety problems in perinatal Indigenous women in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the United States
We conducted a review of research literature related to anxiety, depression, and mood problems in Indigenous women in Canada, the United States (including Hawaii), Australia, and New Zealand. Quantitative and qualitative research studies published between 1980 and March 2010 were reviewed. The initial search revealed 396 potential documents, and after being checked for relevance by two researchers, data were extracted from 16 quantitative studies…
Women, Religion and Agency in Modern British History
The Bible and the Cause
This article examines Victorian debates on scriptural interpretation and women's rights, when feminists and anti-feminists, Christians and secularists battled over whether the Bible assigned women a subordinate sphere. It argues that scriptural debates were of central importance to the nineteenth-century ‘woman question’, while women's rights provided the discursive terrain upon which Christians and secularists competed for power and legitimacy. …
Rethinking the History of Feminism
With the British Women's Liberation Movement celebrating its 40th anniversary this spring, we have seen a proliferation of thinking about the history of feminism: reflections, reminiscences and nos
Freethought, Free Love and Feminism
This article examines the previously unexplored current of Freethinking feminism in the second half of the nineteenth century. Active in the women's movement of this period, Freethinking feminists were nonetheless viewed as a liability—an attitude that contributed to their exclusion from much of the subsequent historiography. Such marginalisation was due not only to their vocal opposition to all forms of religion, but also their openness to discu…
Renaissance Society of America Council Meeting
The Politics of Scientific Racism
Leader-Member Conflict in Protest Organizations
We examine the conflict between leaders and members in protest organizations and challenge Robert Michels' argument that both oligarchy and goal displacement are inevitable in such settings. An examination of protest organizations shows there is often conflict between the interests of membership, the needs of leadership and the requirements for organizational permanence. Our study of the Southern Farmers' Alliance shows that the leadership's purs…
Leader-Member Conflict in Protest Organizations
We examine the conflict between leaders and members in protest organizations and challenge Robert Michels' argument that both oligarchy and goal displacement are inevitable in such settings. An examination of protest organizations shows there is often conflict between the interests of membership, the needs of leadership and the requirements for organizational permanence. Our study of the Southern Farmers' Alliance shows that the leadership's purs…
Rethinking the History of Feminism
With the British Women's Liberation Movement celebrating its 40th anniversary this spring, we have seen a proliferation of thinking about the history of feminism: reflections, reminiscences and nos
Leader-Member Conflict in Protest Organizations
We examine the conflict between leaders and members in protest organizations and challenge Robert Michels' argument that both oligarchy and goal displacement are inevitable in such settings. An examination of protest organizations shows there is often conflict between the interests of membership, the needs of leadership and the requirements for organizational permanence. Our study of the Southern Farmers' Alliance shows that the leadership's purs…
The Politics of Scientific Racism
Renaissance Society of America Council Meeting
The Bible and the Cause
This article examines Victorian debates on scriptural interpretation and women's rights, when feminists and anti-feminists, Christians and secularists battled over whether the Bible assigned women a subordinate sphere. It argues that scriptural debates were of central importance to the nineteenth-century ‘woman question’, while women's rights provided the discursive terrain upon which Christians and secularists competed for power and legitimacy. …
Rethinking the History of Feminism
With the British Women's Liberation Movement celebrating its 40th anniversary this spring, we have seen a proliferation of thinking about the history of feminism: reflections, reminiscences and nos
Freethought, Free Love and Feminism
This article examines the previously unexplored current of Freethinking feminism in the second half of the nineteenth century. Active in the women's movement of this period, Freethinking feminists were nonetheless viewed as a liability—an attitude that contributed to their exclusion from much of the subsequent historiography. Such marginalisation was due not only to their vocal opposition to all forms of religion, but also their openness to discu…
Women, Religion and Agency in Modern British History
Mood and anxiety problems in perinatal Indigenous women in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the United States
We conducted a review of research literature related to anxiety, depression, and mood problems in Indigenous women in Canada, the United States (including Hawaii), Australia, and New Zealand. Quantitative and qualitative research studies published between 1980 and March 2010 were reviewed. The initial search revealed 396 potential documents, and after being checked for relevance by two researchers, data were extracted from 16 quantitative studies…
A Job Like Any Other? Feminist Responses and Challenges to Domestic Worker Organizing in Edwardian Britain
This article focuses on the Domestic Workers’ Union of Great Britain and Ireland (est. 1909–1910), a small, grassroots union organized by young female domestic servants in the years leading up to the First World War. This union emerged against a backdrop of labor unrest as well as an increasingly militant women's movement. The article looks at how the Domestic Workers’ Union drew inspiration from the latter but also encountered hostility from som…
Infidel feminism
Enchanted Modernity, Anglicanism and the Occult in Early Twentieth-Century Oxford
In August 1901, two respectable, unmarried Edwardian ladies travelled backwards in time. On a sightseeing trip to the Court of Versailles, Annie Moberly and Eleanor Jourdain were transported back to 1792 where they encountered the soon-to-be-executed Queen Marie Antoinette. In 1911 they recounted their experiences in An Adventure, a book that was widely reviewed and ran to many editions. Throughout these episodes and their telling Moberly and Jou…
In Search of the New Woman
In the 1890s, journalists and fiction writers turned their attention to the figure of the New Woman. She was commonly depicted as a university graduate, a cigarette-smoking bohemian, and even as a ‘free love’ ‘sex radical’. The New Woman was understood as both product and instigator of new rights and freedoms campaigned for by a growing feminist movement in the second half of the nineteenth century. Gillian Sutherland views this fin-de-siècle ‘fe…
Gender, Crime and Modernity
Orgies, murderous wives, cocaine addiction, drug-dealing, virgin births, adultery and divorce make up the sensational subject matter of the five trials examined in Lucy Bland’s book. Taking place between 1918 and 1924, each of the trials centred on women perceived to embody postwar modernity – a modernity implicated in the ‘deviant’ sexual practices subjected to such close scrutiny by both the courts and the press. Bland sets out to use this seri…
Identification of facilitators and barriers of healthy living and type 2 diabetes prevention among Latinx families
Youth-onset type 2 diabetes (T2D) is on the rise and may be associated with more adverse health outcomes than adult onset. Latinx adolescents are disproportionately at risk for T2D yet are underrepresented in prevention efforts. Extant interventions to prevent T2D in Latinx adolescents show limited effectiveness. Comprehensive understanding of Latinx adolescent/family needs is lacking, but necessary for cultural tailoring of T2D prevention. Resea…
Acceptability and feasibility of a family-inclusive, community-based lifestyle and mindfulness program for Latinx adolescents at risk for type 2 diabetes
History Workshop for Turbulent Times Working-Class History in a Populist Age
This article considers the politics and possibilities of writing labour history in a context where 'the working class' has been so effectively co-opted and interpellated by the populist right. What might working-class and labour history tell us about the uses of class in the twenty-first century? How might we think anew about that historiographical tradition in light of right-wing mobilizations of 'the working class'? What sort of working class h…
Feminism, reproductive labour, and the gendered welfare state in Britain's National Insurance Act of 1911
In 1911, numerous women's organizations, of varying political interests, mounted a campaign against the National Insurance Bill. Such opposition emerged despite feminist support for increased welfare provision in general and especially for the maternity benefit that the Bill proposed to introduce. Feminists criticized National Insurance for discriminating against women, especially its failure to recognize the economic contribution of women's unwa…
Ordinary working-class people? Labour history and ‘Brexit Britain’
This article introduces the special issue ‘Ordinary Working-Class People? Labour History and “Brexit Britain”’. We argue that Brexit was a phenomenon around which a particular form of gendered and racialised class politics crystallised, which subsequently played an important role in the 2019 General Election. The article sets out the rhetorical, material and geographical terrain on which this right-wing vision of class became a powerful force in …
The gender politics of the ‘white working class’
This article historicises a short period of contemporary British history—roughly 2016–2020—when the spectre of ‘the working class’ returned to mainstream politics. While scholars have critiqued this new class politics for privileging identity and culture over material conditions (especially its racial and racist coding), its gender politics have yet to be explored. I argue that the gendering of the British working class as male as well as white w…
Sociology (13 works) · Gender Studies (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Politics (8 works) · Feminism (7 works) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · History (6 works) · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies (5 works)