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<p><p>This groundbreaking volume examines women's political involvement from a variety of innovative angles. In addition to exploring literary sources and women's contribution to electoral processes, pressure group politics are examined in depth (including Jewish civil rights and the campaigns against the Corn Laws and Indian widow-burning). The attention to neglected aspects of women's political activity, such as religion, domesticity, European nationalism, empire, and lifestyle enable this book to challenge not only the historiography of Georgian and Victorian women, but also the nature of political history itself.<p></p> <h3>Booknews</h3> <p>Claiming for themselves the Petticoat Government metaphor used during the period by those who feared women's power both in political arenas and in domestic space, British historians examine the contexts in which those fears were based. They explore the nature of women's political involvement in the electoral process from a variety of innovative angles, and also women's contribution to pressure group politics such as Jewish civil rights, European nationalism, and campaigns against the Corn Laws and Indian widow-burning. They eight essays are

Author

Kathryn Gleadle and Sarah Richardson

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan; Springer

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9781349629893

Subjects

History, Science, Social Science