Krista Cowman
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3743065 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Krista Cowman |
| PRENOMES | Krista |
| SOBRENOME | Cowman |
| ASSINATURA | COWMAN K |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Lincoln |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1318-9450 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1998 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Arianne Chernock. The Right to Rule and the Rights of Women
Queen Victoria was not an obvious feminist role model. England’s fifth and—until 2015—longest-reigning regnant queen presided over a large empire during a time of significant economic growth, but she is never presented as a trailblazer for women’s rights. Instead she epitomized a domestic femininity, popularizing the image of monarch as dutiful wife, doting mother, and grieving widow. Add to this her comment that “women were not made to govern” a…
Feminism and the Servant Problem
Early in Gertrude Colmore’s 1911 novel Suffragette Sally, the eponymous heroine, Edwardian servant Sally Simmonds, is selling suffrage papers in the street when she is recognised by Edith Carstairs, a friend of her former employer. They pause to chat, prompting Edith’s mother to rebuke her: ‘I don’t know what you’re coming to, talking for so long to that common-looking woman. If you must buy a paper in the street, why couldn’t you just buy it and…
A Matter of Public Interest
This paper considers media coverage of the clothes chosen by early women MPs. Opening with the very recent case of public outrage sparked by the dress choice of Labour MP Tracy Brabin, it suggests that a disproportionate attention to what women wear in Parliament rather than what they do there is a longstanding phenomenon. Looking at examples from the 1920s, the first decade of women MPs, it demonstrates how political women have consistently been…
Ideal Homes, 1918–39
Housing was a key issue in inter-war Britain. The Government’s promise to provide homes that would be ‘fit for heroes’ to live in prompted large-scale slum clearance and mass building programmes. New homes were not restricted to council or private rental sectors; home-ownership rose threefold between the wars, helped by an increase in affordable mortgages from building societies. Many of those who took advantage of these used them to support the …
A Waste of Space? Controversies Surrounding the Working-Class Parlour in Inter-War Britain
This article uncovers the fierce inter-war debate provoked by the British Government’s decision to remove state subsidies for building larger “parlour-type” houses in 1923. Examining the various defences that were put forward in support of the working-class parlour it argues that the parlour was seen as a key marker of respectability in working-class communities with the potential to shape the behaviours and outlook of its inhabitants. Drawing on…
Play streets
This article explores women’s participation in campaigns for urban play streets in England c.1930–1970. Concentrating on activities in ‘traditional’ terraced streets, it argues that working-class street sociability was strongly connected to children’s play and that rising levels of traffic were beginning to threaten this before the Second World War, feeding growing anxieties over the high rate of road accidents to children. One response to this f…
From the Housewife’s Point of View’
This article explores the work of the Women’s Housing Sub-Committee, a government-appointed body which reported to the Advisory Council of the Ministry of Reconstruction, in recognising the home as a key site where active, respectable female citizens might be produced. The Sub-Committee started work in 1918, a month after the Representation of the People Act gave votes to some British women, prompting a wide debate about how best to integrate the…
It be only for a moment’
While historians of women's politics concur that the majority of their activity took place at the local level, the history of political movements is still largely a national one. Women's under-representation has been challenged by research on the twentieth century, but the history of their involvement in fin de siècle politics, especially on the left, remains largely unknown. This article explores organisation among Liverpool's ropemakers in the …
Touring behind the lines
This article explores the importance that accessing urban life assumed for British soldiers stationed in France during World War I. Many who fought on the Western Front had never visited a foreign country before sailing to France. Drawing on contemporary letters and diaries and later memoirs, it considers how men responded to the new experiences they found in French towns and cities behind the lines. Through exploring activities from shopping and…
Twenty Years On
This article reproduces contributions to a panel discussing the early days of the Women's History Network (UK), delivered to its twentieth-anniversary conference. The introduction explains the panel's purpose and contributors' methodologies. The context of the network's formation, touched on in discussion, is then described and common themes identified before transcripts of the individual contributions are reproduced
The Newer Eve
"The Newer Eve: women, feminists and the Labour Party CHRISTINE COLLETTE." Women's History Review, 20(5), pp. 845–846
Carrying on a Long Tradition’
The close relationship between feminism and history has resulted in peaks in the production of feminist histories which coincide with high levels of feminist activity. In many instances, feminists have conceived the research and writing of history as a political act in itself. This article investigates some of the contradictions and omissions which can arise when feminism attempts to engage with its own past. Though a close examination of the cov…
Doing Something Silly”
Investigations into uses of humour associated with the militant suffrage campaign of the Women's Social and Political Union have been largely concerned with the satirizing of suffragettes. The uses that suffragettes themselves made of humour as a considered political tactic have been less considered. This paper explores three ways in which suffragettes turned humour to their advantage during their campaign: by deliberately adopting “silly” behavi…
Women and Work Culture
This volume brings together an interdisciplinary collection of essays on the cultural practices and identities associated with women's work in modern Britain. The volume is divided into five thematic sections: the meaning of work, factory labour, youth, medicine and science, and women and war. The essays examine a wide-range of primary sources including literary fiction, popular magazines, social commentaries, oral testimony and autobiographical …
Middle-class women and professional identity
Introduction to special edition of Women's History Review exploring the importance of professional identity to the lives of middle-class women from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century
A footnote in history? Mary Gawthorpe, Sylvia Pankhurst, the suffragette movement and the writing of suffragette history [1]
In 1931, the Suffragette Fellowship invited several ex-suffragettes to contribute biographical statements and material to their archive to create a 'Book of Suffragette Prisoners' which would introduce the women who had been to prison in pursuit of the vote. In response, the suffragette Mary Gawthorpe, a member of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) committee between 1906 and 1911, deposited a series of testimonies describing her politi…
Mrs Brown is a Man and a Brother
Mrs Brown is a Man and a Brother
Mrs Brown is a Man and a Brother
This book offers the first detailed regional study of women's politics in the United Kingdom in the period before the First World War. Its purpose is to investigate how women's politics functioned at the grass roots, away from the schisms and personality clashes of the national political scene. The book investigates the membership, activities and campaigning methodologies of a variety of formal political organizations ranging from branches of nat…
Minutes of the Last Meeting Passed
Discussion of the themes and priorities of local suffrage branches as outlined in the newly discovered Huddersfield WSPU minute book
A Peculiarly English Institution’
The Labour Church held its first service in Charlton Hall, Manchester, in October 1891. The well-attended event was led by Revd Harold Rylett, a Unitarian minister from Hyde, and John Trevor, a former Unitarian and the driving force behind the idea. Counting the experiment a success, Trevor organized a follow-up meeting the next Sunday, at which the congregation overflowed from the hall into the surrounding streets. A new religious movement had b…
Incipient Toryism'? The Women's Social and Political Union and the Independent Labour Party, 1903-14
" Although the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) was founded by women who were also activists in the Independent Labour Party (ILP), early versions of its history, by participants, largely concurred that the two organizations drifted apart rapidly. They argued that the suffragette WSPU was then dominated by an increasingly middle-class leadership who eschewed socialism in favour of a rigidly-enforced political independence and were ultima…
Women's suffrage campaigns in britain
The British Women's Suffrage Campaign, 1866–1928 HAROLD L. SMITH, 1998 London: Longman. 122 pp., ISBN 0 582 98113, paperback, £6.99
We intend to show what Our Lord has done for women’
There was nothing unusual in the inauguration, in December 1909, of a Church League for Women’s Suffrage (CLWS). By January 1914, suffrage had become so expansive that fifty-three organizations competed for or shared a membership divided by tactics, religion, political allegiance, ethnic origin, or metier, but united in their desire to see the parliamentary franchise awarded to women. At the time of the League’s formation, the centre stage of suf…
Suffrage days
Play streets
This article explores women’s participation in campaigns for urban play streets in England c.1930–1970. Concentrating on activities in ‘traditional’ terraced streets, it argues that working-class street sociability was strongly connected to children’s play and that rising levels of traffic were beginning to threaten this before the Second World War, feeding growing anxieties over the high rate of road accidents to children. One response to this f…
From the Housewife’s Point of View’
This article explores the work of the Women’s Housing Sub-Committee, a government-appointed body which reported to the Advisory Council of the Ministry of Reconstruction, in recognising the home as a key site where active, respectable female citizens might be produced. The Sub-Committee started work in 1918, a month after the Representation of the People Act gave votes to some British women, prompting a wide debate about how best to integrate the…
Doing Something Silly”
Investigations into uses of humour associated with the militant suffrage campaign of the Women's Social and Political Union have been largely concerned with the satirizing of suffragettes. The uses that suffragettes themselves made of humour as a considered political tactic have been less considered. This paper explores three ways in which suffragettes turned humour to their advantage during their campaign: by deliberately adopting “silly” behavi…
Carrying on a Long Tradition’
The close relationship between feminism and history has resulted in peaks in the production of feminist histories which coincide with high levels of feminist activity. In many instances, feminists have conceived the research and writing of history as a political act in itself. This article investigates some of the contradictions and omissions which can arise when feminism attempts to engage with its own past. Though a close examination of the cov…
Middle-class women and professional identity
Introduction to special edition of Women's History Review exploring the importance of professional identity to the lives of middle-class women from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century
Minutes of the Last Meeting Passed
Discussion of the themes and priorities of local suffrage branches as outlined in the newly discovered Huddersfield WSPU minute book
Incipient Toryism'? The Women's Social and Political Union and the Independent Labour Party, 1903-14
" Although the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) was founded by women who were also activists in the Independent Labour Party (ILP), early versions of its history, by participants, largely concurred that the two organizations drifted apart rapidly. They argued that the suffragette WSPU was then dominated by an increasingly middle-class leadership who eschewed socialism in favour of a rigidly-enforced political independence and were ultima…
We intend to show what Our Lord has done for women’
There was nothing unusual in the inauguration, in December 1909, of a Church League for Women’s Suffrage (CLWS). By January 1914, suffrage had become so expansive that fifty-three organizations competed for or shared a membership divided by tactics, religion, political allegiance, ethnic origin, or metier, but united in their desire to see the parliamentary franchise awarded to women. At the time of the League’s formation, the centre stage of suf…
Suffrage days
Women's suffrage campaigns in britain
The British Women's Suffrage Campaign, 1866–1928 HAROLD L. SMITH, 1998 London: Longman. 122 pp., ISBN 0 582 98113, paperback, £6.99
Minutes of the Last Meeting Passed
Discussion of the themes and priorities of local suffrage branches as outlined in the newly discovered Huddersfield WSPU minute book
A Peculiarly English Institution’
The Labour Church held its first service in Charlton Hall, Manchester, in October 1891. The well-attended event was led by Revd Harold Rylett, a Unitarian minister from Hyde, and John Trevor, a former Unitarian and the driving force behind the idea. Counting the experiment a success, Trevor organized a follow-up meeting the next Sunday, at which the congregation overflowed from the hall into the surrounding streets. A new religious movement had b…
Incipient Toryism'? The Women's Social and Political Union and the Independent Labour Party, 1903-14
" Although the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) was founded by women who were also activists in the Independent Labour Party (ILP), early versions of its history, by participants, largely concurred that the two organizations drifted apart rapidly. They argued that the suffragette WSPU was then dominated by an increasingly middle-class leadership who eschewed socialism in favour of a rigidly-enforced political independence and were ultima…
Mrs Brown is a Man and a Brother
Mrs Brown is a Man and a Brother
Mrs Brown is a Man and a Brother
This book offers the first detailed regional study of women's politics in the United Kingdom in the period before the First World War. Its purpose is to investigate how women's politics functioned at the grass roots, away from the schisms and personality clashes of the national political scene. The book investigates the membership, activities and campaigning methodologies of a variety of formal political organizations ranging from branches of nat…
Women and Work Culture
This volume brings together an interdisciplinary collection of essays on the cultural practices and identities associated with women's work in modern Britain. The volume is divided into five thematic sections: the meaning of work, factory labour, youth, medicine and science, and women and war. The essays examine a wide-range of primary sources including literary fiction, popular magazines, social commentaries, oral testimony and autobiographical …
Middle-class women and professional identity
Introduction to special edition of Women's History Review exploring the importance of professional identity to the lives of middle-class women from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century
A footnote in history? Mary Gawthorpe, Sylvia Pankhurst, the suffragette movement and the writing of suffragette history [1]
In 1931, the Suffragette Fellowship invited several ex-suffragettes to contribute biographical statements and material to their archive to create a 'Book of Suffragette Prisoners' which would introduce the women who had been to prison in pursuit of the vote. In response, the suffragette Mary Gawthorpe, a member of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) committee between 1906 and 1911, deposited a series of testimonies describing her politi…
Doing Something Silly”
Investigations into uses of humour associated with the militant suffrage campaign of the Women's Social and Political Union have been largely concerned with the satirizing of suffragettes. The uses that suffragettes themselves made of humour as a considered political tactic have been less considered. This paper explores three ways in which suffragettes turned humour to their advantage during their campaign: by deliberately adopting “silly” behavi…
Carrying on a Long Tradition’
The close relationship between feminism and history has resulted in peaks in the production of feminist histories which coincide with high levels of feminist activity. In many instances, feminists have conceived the research and writing of history as a political act in itself. This article investigates some of the contradictions and omissions which can arise when feminism attempts to engage with its own past. Though a close examination of the cov…
The Newer Eve
"The Newer Eve: women, feminists and the Labour Party CHRISTINE COLLETTE." Women's History Review, 20(5), pp. 845–846
Touring behind the lines
This article explores the importance that accessing urban life assumed for British soldiers stationed in France during World War I. Many who fought on the Western Front had never visited a foreign country before sailing to France. Drawing on contemporary letters and diaries and later memoirs, it considers how men responded to the new experiences they found in French towns and cities behind the lines. Through exploring activities from shopping and…
Twenty Years On
This article reproduces contributions to a panel discussing the early days of the Women's History Network (UK), delivered to its twentieth-anniversary conference. The introduction explains the panel's purpose and contributors' methodologies. The context of the network's formation, touched on in discussion, is then described and common themes identified before transcripts of the individual contributions are reproduced
From the Housewife’s Point of View’
This article explores the work of the Women’s Housing Sub-Committee, a government-appointed body which reported to the Advisory Council of the Ministry of Reconstruction, in recognising the home as a key site where active, respectable female citizens might be produced. The Sub-Committee started work in 1918, a month after the Representation of the People Act gave votes to some British women, prompting a wide debate about how best to integrate the…
It be only for a moment’
While historians of women's politics concur that the majority of their activity took place at the local level, the history of political movements is still largely a national one. Women's under-representation has been challenged by research on the twentieth century, but the history of their involvement in fin de siècle politics, especially on the left, remains largely unknown. This article explores organisation among Liverpool's ropemakers in the …
Play streets
This article explores women’s participation in campaigns for urban play streets in England c.1930–1970. Concentrating on activities in ‘traditional’ terraced streets, it argues that working-class street sociability was strongly connected to children’s play and that rising levels of traffic were beginning to threaten this before the Second World War, feeding growing anxieties over the high rate of road accidents to children. One response to this f…
A Waste of Space? Controversies Surrounding the Working-Class Parlour in Inter-War Britain
This article uncovers the fierce inter-war debate provoked by the British Government’s decision to remove state subsidies for building larger “parlour-type” houses in 1923. Examining the various defences that were put forward in support of the working-class parlour it argues that the parlour was seen as a key marker of respectability in working-class communities with the potential to shape the behaviours and outlook of its inhabitants. Drawing on…
Ideal Homes, 1918–39
Housing was a key issue in inter-war Britain. The Government’s promise to provide homes that would be ‘fit for heroes’ to live in prompted large-scale slum clearance and mass building programmes. New homes were not restricted to council or private rental sectors; home-ownership rose threefold between the wars, helped by an increase in affordable mortgages from building societies. Many of those who took advantage of these used them to support the …
A Matter of Public Interest
This paper considers media coverage of the clothes chosen by early women MPs. Opening with the very recent case of public outrage sparked by the dress choice of Labour MP Tracy Brabin, it suggests that a disproportionate attention to what women wear in Parliament rather than what they do there is a longstanding phenomenon. Looking at examples from the 1920s, the first decade of women MPs, it demonstrates how political women have consistently been…
Feminism and the Servant Problem
Early in Gertrude Colmore’s 1911 novel Suffragette Sally, the eponymous heroine, Edwardian servant Sally Simmonds, is selling suffrage papers in the street when she is recognised by Edith Carstairs, a friend of her former employer. They pause to chat, prompting Edith’s mother to rebuke her: ‘I don’t know what you’re coming to, talking for so long to that common-looking woman. If you must buy a paper in the street, why couldn’t you just buy it and…
Arianne Chernock. The Right to Rule and the Rights of Women
Queen Victoria was not an obvious feminist role model. England’s fifth and—until 2015—longest-reigning regnant queen presided over a large empire during a time of significant economic growth, but she is never presented as a trailblazer for women’s rights. Instead she epitomized a domestic femininity, popularizing the image of monarch as dutiful wife, doting mother, and grieving widow. Add to this her comment that “women were not made to govern” a…
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