‘Women and the Labour Party: gender and the writing of British political history’

Jenkins, Lyndsey and Ward, Stephanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5932-7129 2023. ‘Women and the Labour Party: gender and the writing of British political history’. The Political Quarterly 94 (2) , pp. 251-257. 10.1111/1467-923X.13266

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Abstract

This article takes stock of the state of women's political history in the twentieth century and suggests new lines of enquiry, drawing on the authors’ own work on the Labour Party. It identifies a number of key themes which have enriched histories of women and gender in the nineteenth and early twentieth century and considers how these might be developed. Firstly, it examines the significance of the local, and more particularly, the neighbourhood, in women's political lives. Secondly, it asserts the value of focussing on the membership, including the economic, social and cultural shifts that shaped their lives, the intersection of gender with factors such as age or ethnicity, and their own political identities. Finally, it stresses the importance of interrogating masculine cultures to understand how gendered dynamics played out. It concludes with a reminder that inserting women into established political narratives is insufficient: the point is to transform those narratives.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	History, Archaeology and Religion
Subjects:	D History General and Old World > D History (General) > D204 Modern History D History General and Old World > DA Great Britain
Publisher:	Wiley
ISSN:	1467-923X
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	13 March 2023
Date of Acceptance:	20 April 2023
Last Modified:	11 Jul 2023 16:35
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/157683

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