Charles Beaumont
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 700349 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Charles Beaumont |
| PRENOMES | Charles |
| SOBRENOME | Beaumont |
| ASSINATURA | BEAUMONT C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | London South Bank University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1017-8059 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1959 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
The 'silver thread
Focussing on the life-long activism of former suffragette and feminist Hazel Hunkins-Hallinan this article presents an innovative re-appraisal of histories of the women’s movement in England during the 1960s and 1970s. Adopting a micro-history approach the article uses Hunkins-Hallinan’s experience of feminist activism to make two connected arguments. The first is to challenge the suggestion that post-suffrage feminist societies such as the Six P…
The Women's Liberation Movement and the Politics of Class in Britain
George Stevenson's new book is a significant addition to the growing body of literature seeking to unravel the tangled origin stories, history, and demise of the Women's Liberation Movement (WLM) in Britain. Since the publication in 1982 of Anna Coote and Beatrix Campbell's Sweet Freedom: The Struggle for Women's Liberation, the intersections and tensions between class, race, and gender, alongside a focus on metropolis versus local activism, have…
Women’s Organisations, Active Citizenship, and the Peace Movement
The history of women’s engagement in the interwar peace movement has focused primarily on feminist pacifists, individuals who participated in both the women’s suffrage movement and the peace movement. Much less attention has been given to the peace activism of voluntary women’s groups that did not self-identify as feminist but which were equally committed to preserving peace. This analysis explores the contribution of three women’s organisations …
Networks as 'laboratories of experience
Applying an innovative conceptual framework this article presents an interdisciplinary re-appraisal of the suffrage movement and its aftermath in Ireland throughout the years 1870–1937. New social movement theory is utilised to consider how, in the words of the Italian sociologist Alberto Melucci ‘the submerged networks of social movements are laboratories of experience’. Going beyond the previously published work of each author, this article use…
Sarah Browne, The Women's Liberation Movement in Scotland
The acceptable face of feminism
The publication of the first edition of The Acceptable Face of Feminism in 1997 marked a key moment in the historiography of the women's movement in Britain. In this first edition, Andrews argued t
What Do Women Want? Housewives' Associations, Activism and Changing Representations of Women in the 1950s
The myth that the women's movement in Britain went into decline in the decade following the Second World War has now been debunked. Yet despite this more accurate re-telling of the fate of female activism in the 1950s, the view that the majority of women at this time aspired only to marriage and motherhood persists. The iconic image of the ‘ideal 1950s housewife’ has proved hard to excise from the historical record and the public imagination. The…
What is a wife’? Reconstructing domesticity in postwar Britain before The Feminine Mystique
This article investigates the relationship between the lived experiences of housewives in 1950s and early 1960s Britain and their portrayal in The Feminine Mystique and popular women’s magazines. Through a study of four housewives’ associations, the Women’s Institutes, Mothers’ Union, Townswomen’s Guilds and the National Council of Women, it is argued that they rejected the prevailing ideology of domesticity and challenged the myth of the ‘happy …
The Aftermath of Suffrage
Journal Article The Aftermath of Suffrage: Women, Gender, and Politics in Britain, 1918-1945. Edited by Julie V. Gottlieb and Richard Toye. Get access The Aftermath of Suffrage: Women, Gender, and Politics in Britain, 1918-1945. Edited by Julie V. Gottlieb and Richard Toye. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2013. x + 254 pp. ISBN 978-1-137-01533-4/978-1-137-01534-1, £60 (hardback)/£19.99 (paperback). Caitríona Beaumont Caitríona Beaumont London So…
Fighting for the 'Privileges of Citizenship
In 1928 the YWCA welcomed the introduction of the universal suffrage by declaring that women in Britain were now entitled to the full political privileges of citizenship. This article will explore the way in which the YWCA, previously omitted from histories of the British women's movement, sought to educate and inform its members about the rights and duties of democratic citizenship. The involvement of the YWCA in citizenship education and its ro…
Where to Park the Pram'? Voluntary Women's Organisations, Citizenship and the Campaign for Better Housing in England, 1928-1945
This article explores the contribution made by five conservative and voluntary women's organisations to the campaign for better housing in England 1928–45. The five organisations discussed are: The Mothers’ Union, the Catholic Women's League, the National Federation of Women's Institutes, the National Union of Townswomen's Guilds and the National Council of Women. It will be argued that these voluntary associations participated in the campaign fo…
A History of the Mothers' Union
Moral Dilemmas and Women's Rights
In order to ensure that women benefited from their newly won rights as citizens in 1918 and 1928, the Mothers’ Union and Catholic Women’s League campaigned, along with feminist and political women’s organisations, to enhance the role and status of women in society. Difficulties emerged, however, when changes in public attitudes led to the liberalisation of the law in relation to divorce and birth control coupled with the growing demand within the…
Citizens not feminists
This article explores the concepts of citizenship and feminism as interpreted by six large voluntary and mainstream women's groups in England during the years 1928–39. The six organisations considered here are the Mothers' Union, the Young Women's Christian Association, the Catholic Women's League, the National Federation of Women's Institutes, the National Union of Townswomen's Guilds and the National Council of Women. The article asks why these…
Women, citizenship and Catholicism in the Irish free state, 1922-1948
This article explores the ways in which Catholic social teaching influenced and shaped the changing definitions of women's citizenship during the formative years of the Irish Free State. The 1922 Irish Free State Constitution guaranteed equal rights and equal opportunities to all its citizens. By 1937 this guarantee of equal citizenship for women had been transformed into a more gender based definition. Citizenship for women was now clearly defin…
Government Popularity and Attitude Towards the Government's Record Revisited
A recent paper in this Journal (John Hudson, ‘The Relationship Between Government Popularity and Approval for the Government's Record in the United Kingdom’, XV (1985), 165–86) examined the relationship between government popularity as indicated by the voting intentions series of the opinion polls and approval for the government's record. Among other things it demonstrated that government popularity increased in the quarter prior to an election a…
Hush, Child! Can't You Hear the Music
The Intruder
Women, citizenship and Catholicism in the Irish free state, 1922-1948
This article explores the ways in which Catholic social teaching influenced and shaped the changing definitions of women's citizenship during the formative years of the Irish Free State. The 1922 Irish Free State Constitution guaranteed equal rights and equal opportunities to all its citizens. By 1937 this guarantee of equal citizenship for women had been transformed into a more gender based definition. Citizenship for women was now clearly defin…
Citizens not feminists
This article explores the concepts of citizenship and feminism as interpreted by six large voluntary and mainstream women's groups in England during the years 1928–39. The six organisations considered here are the Mothers' Union, the Young Women's Christian Association, the Catholic Women's League, the National Federation of Women's Institutes, the National Union of Townswomen's Guilds and the National Council of Women. The article asks why these…
Where to Park the Pram'? Voluntary Women's Organisations, Citizenship and the Campaign for Better Housing in England, 1928-1945
This article explores the contribution made by five conservative and voluntary women's organisations to the campaign for better housing in England 1928–45. The five organisations discussed are: The Mothers’ Union, the Catholic Women's League, the National Federation of Women's Institutes, the National Union of Townswomen's Guilds and the National Council of Women. It will be argued that these voluntary associations participated in the campaign fo…
Women’s Organisations, Active Citizenship, and the Peace Movement
The history of women’s engagement in the interwar peace movement has focused primarily on feminist pacifists, individuals who participated in both the women’s suffrage movement and the peace movement. Much less attention has been given to the peace activism of voluntary women’s groups that did not self-identify as feminist but which were equally committed to preserving peace. This analysis explores the contribution of three women’s organisations …
Networks as 'laboratories of experience
Applying an innovative conceptual framework this article presents an interdisciplinary re-appraisal of the suffrage movement and its aftermath in Ireland throughout the years 1870–1937. New social movement theory is utilised to consider how, in the words of the Italian sociologist Alberto Melucci ‘the submerged networks of social movements are laboratories of experience’. Going beyond the previously published work of each author, this article use…
Fighting for the 'Privileges of Citizenship
In 1928 the YWCA welcomed the introduction of the universal suffrage by declaring that women in Britain were now entitled to the full political privileges of citizenship. This article will explore the way in which the YWCA, previously omitted from histories of the British women's movement, sought to educate and inform its members about the rights and duties of democratic citizenship. The involvement of the YWCA in citizenship education and its ro…
Government Popularity and Attitude Towards the Government's Record Revisited
A recent paper in this Journal (John Hudson, ‘The Relationship Between Government Popularity and Approval for the Government's Record in the United Kingdom’, XV (1985), 165–86) examined the relationship between government popularity as indicated by the voting intentions series of the opinion polls and approval for the government's record. Among other things it demonstrated that government popularity increased in the quarter prior to an election a…
The Intruder
Hush, Child! Can't You Hear the Music
Government Popularity and Attitude Towards the Government's Record Revisited
A recent paper in this Journal (John Hudson, ‘The Relationship Between Government Popularity and Approval for the Government's Record in the United Kingdom’, XV (1985), 165–86) examined the relationship between government popularity as indicated by the voting intentions series of the opinion polls and approval for the government's record. Among other things it demonstrated that government popularity increased in the quarter prior to an election a…
Women, citizenship and Catholicism in the Irish free state, 1922-1948
This article explores the ways in which Catholic social teaching influenced and shaped the changing definitions of women's citizenship during the formative years of the Irish Free State. The 1922 Irish Free State Constitution guaranteed equal rights and equal opportunities to all its citizens. By 1937 this guarantee of equal citizenship for women had been transformed into a more gender based definition. Citizenship for women was now clearly defin…
Citizens not feminists
This article explores the concepts of citizenship and feminism as interpreted by six large voluntary and mainstream women's groups in England during the years 1928–39. The six organisations considered here are the Mothers' Union, the Young Women's Christian Association, the Catholic Women's League, the National Federation of Women's Institutes, the National Union of Townswomen's Guilds and the National Council of Women. The article asks why these…
Moral Dilemmas and Women's Rights
In order to ensure that women benefited from their newly won rights as citizens in 1918 and 1928, the Mothers’ Union and Catholic Women’s League campaigned, along with feminist and political women’s organisations, to enhance the role and status of women in society. Difficulties emerged, however, when changes in public attitudes led to the liberalisation of the law in relation to divorce and birth control coupled with the growing demand within the…
A History of the Mothers' Union
Where to Park the Pram'? Voluntary Women's Organisations, Citizenship and the Campaign for Better Housing in England, 1928-1945
This article explores the contribution made by five conservative and voluntary women's organisations to the campaign for better housing in England 1928–45. The five organisations discussed are: The Mothers’ Union, the Catholic Women's League, the National Federation of Women's Institutes, the National Union of Townswomen's Guilds and the National Council of Women. It will be argued that these voluntary associations participated in the campaign fo…
The Aftermath of Suffrage
Journal Article The Aftermath of Suffrage: Women, Gender, and Politics in Britain, 1918-1945. Edited by Julie V. Gottlieb and Richard Toye. Get access The Aftermath of Suffrage: Women, Gender, and Politics in Britain, 1918-1945. Edited by Julie V. Gottlieb and Richard Toye. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2013. x + 254 pp. ISBN 978-1-137-01533-4/978-1-137-01534-1, £60 (hardback)/£19.99 (paperback). Caitríona Beaumont Caitríona Beaumont London So…
Fighting for the 'Privileges of Citizenship
In 1928 the YWCA welcomed the introduction of the universal suffrage by declaring that women in Britain were now entitled to the full political privileges of citizenship. This article will explore the way in which the YWCA, previously omitted from histories of the British women's movement, sought to educate and inform its members about the rights and duties of democratic citizenship. The involvement of the YWCA in citizenship education and its ro…
What is a wife’? Reconstructing domesticity in postwar Britain before The Feminine Mystique
This article investigates the relationship between the lived experiences of housewives in 1950s and early 1960s Britain and their portrayal in The Feminine Mystique and popular women’s magazines. Through a study of four housewives’ associations, the Women’s Institutes, Mothers’ Union, Townswomen’s Guilds and the National Council of Women, it is argued that they rejected the prevailing ideology of domesticity and challenged the myth of the ‘happy …
What Do Women Want? Housewives' Associations, Activism and Changing Representations of Women in the 1950s
The myth that the women's movement in Britain went into decline in the decade following the Second World War has now been debunked. Yet despite this more accurate re-telling of the fate of female activism in the 1950s, the view that the majority of women at this time aspired only to marriage and motherhood persists. The iconic image of the ‘ideal 1950s housewife’ has proved hard to excise from the historical record and the public imagination. The…
Sarah Browne, The Women's Liberation Movement in Scotland
The acceptable face of feminism
The publication of the first edition of The Acceptable Face of Feminism in 1997 marked a key moment in the historiography of the women's movement in Britain. In this first edition, Andrews argued t
Women’s Organisations, Active Citizenship, and the Peace Movement
The history of women’s engagement in the interwar peace movement has focused primarily on feminist pacifists, individuals who participated in both the women’s suffrage movement and the peace movement. Much less attention has been given to the peace activism of voluntary women’s groups that did not self-identify as feminist but which were equally committed to preserving peace. This analysis explores the contribution of three women’s organisations …
Networks as 'laboratories of experience
Applying an innovative conceptual framework this article presents an interdisciplinary re-appraisal of the suffrage movement and its aftermath in Ireland throughout the years 1870–1937. New social movement theory is utilised to consider how, in the words of the Italian sociologist Alberto Melucci ‘the submerged networks of social movements are laboratories of experience’. Going beyond the previously published work of each author, this article use…
The Women's Liberation Movement and the Politics of Class in Britain
George Stevenson's new book is a significant addition to the growing body of literature seeking to unravel the tangled origin stories, history, and demise of the Women's Liberation Movement (WLM) in Britain. Since the publication in 1982 of Anna Coote and Beatrix Campbell's Sweet Freedom: The Struggle for Women's Liberation, the intersections and tensions between class, race, and gender, alongside a focus on metropolis versus local activism, have…
The 'silver thread
Focussing on the life-long activism of former suffragette and feminist Hazel Hunkins-Hallinan this article presents an innovative re-appraisal of histories of the women’s movement in England during the 1960s and 1970s. Adopting a micro-history approach the article uses Hunkins-Hallinan’s experience of feminist activism to make two connected arguments. The first is to challenge the suggestion that post-suffrage feminist societies such as the Six P…
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