'Guilty women', foreign policy, and appeasement in inter-war Britain / Julie V. Gottlieb, Senior Lecturer in Modern History, University of Sheffield, UK.

Publication | Not Digitized | Library Call Number: DA566.7 .G675 2015

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Format: Book
Author/Creator: Gottlieb, Julie V., author.
Published: Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015
Locale: Great Britain
Contents: British women and the three encounters: international, European, and fascist
Women's war on fascism
'Guilty women:' conspiracy and collusion
'Guilty women:' powers behind thrones
'To speak a few words of comfort to them:' conservative women's support for Chamberlain and appeasement
'Women are the best of friends of Mr Chamberlain's policy:' gendered representations of public opinion
'Anyway let's have peace:' women's expressions of opinion on appeasement
'Don't believe in foreigners:' the female franchise factor and the Munich by-elections
The women Churchillians and the politics of shame.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-328) and index.

British women and the three encounters: international, European, and fascist -- Women's war on fascism -- 'Guilty women:' conspiracy and collusion -- 'Guilty women:' powers behind thrones -- 'To speak a few words of comfort to them:' conservative women's support for Chamberlain and appeasement -- 'Women are the best of friends of Mr Chamberlain's policy:' gendered representations of public opinion -- 'Anyway let's have peace:' women's expressions of opinion on appeasement -- 'Don't believe in foreigners:' the female franchise factor and the Munich by-elections -- The women Churchillians and the politics of shame.

Subjects: Women--Political activity--Great Britain--History--20th century. Great Britain--Foreign relations--1910-1936. Great Britain--Foreign relations--1936-1945. Women. Womyn.

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