TY  - BOOK
TI  - The life and turbulent times of Clara Dorothea Rackham: suffragist, socialist, and social reformer
AU  - Joannou, Maroula
PY  - 2023
PB  - Routledge
LA  - eng
KW  - Social reformers
KW  - Women social reformers
KW  - Labor movement
KW  - Women
KW  - Réformateurs sociaux
KW  - Réformatrices sociales
KW  - Mouvement ouvrier
KW  - History
KW  - Political activity
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Great Brtain
KW  - Grande-Bretagne
AB  - "This is the first critical study of Clara Dorothea Rackham née Tabor (1875-1966), a towering figure in the suffrage, labour, co-operative, peace and adult education movements but virtually forgotten today. This clearly written and engaging study is based on unpublished primary sources including Rackham's unpublished speeches, letters, diaries and contemporary media coverage of her work in local and national archives. It reassesses this remarkable woman not only as a politician who changed the face of Cambridge, the university city in which she lived and worked, but also as a public intellectual whose feminist advocacy of a fair, just and equal society helped pave the way to Britain's postwar settlement and Welfare State. Rackham came to prominence as Chairman of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, as a government factory inspector, and championing the rights of unemployed women in the 1930s. An early broadcaster on BBC radio, and among the first women appointed magistrates and councillors, her name became synonymous with enlightened local government. The transformation of women's lives in Victorian and twentieth-century Britain is crucial to understanding Rackham's ideals, intellectual formation, and priorities as a Labour Party politician. This book will be of interest to historians and students of gender, history, and women's lives"--
UR  - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=3368066
SN  - 1000762637
SN  - 0429353499
SN  - 9780429353499
SN  - 0367373920
SN  - 0367373939
T2  - Routledge research in gender and history
UR  - https://www.pollux-fid.de/r/ebsco-3368066
H1  - Pollux (Fachinformationsdienst Politikwissenschaft)
ER  -