Eva Gore-Booth : an image of such politics.

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This is the first dedicated biography of the extraordinary Irish woman, Eva Gore-Booth. Gore-Booth rejected her aristocratic heritage choosing to live and work amongst the poorest classes in industrial Manchester. Her work on behalf of barmaids, circus acrobats, flower sellers and pit-brow lasses is...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Tiernan, Sonja
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Manchester University Press, 2016.
Temas:
Women social reformers > Ireland > Biography.
Réformatrices sociales > Irlande > Biographies.
Women social reformers
Ireland
Eva Gore- Booth.
Great War.
Irish independence.
Irish woman.
Roger Casement.
W.B. Yeats.
Winston Churchill.
aristocratic heritage.
gender equality.
industrial Manchester.
militant pacifism.
occult beliefs.
sexual equality.
spiritualism.
Biographies
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Eva Gore-Booth: An image of such politics; Half Title Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; List of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introducing the Gore-Booth family; 1. Life in the big house: childhood and Lissadell; 2. A pair of oddities: meeting Esther Roper; 3. The birth of a rebel: social reform in Manchester; 4. Sadder and wiser women: Lancashire trade unions; 5. Women who kick, shriek, bite and spit: suffragists and suffragettes; 6. Defending barmaids: legislative proposals and Winston Churchill.
  • 7. World War One: from trade unionism to peace movements8. Conscientious objectors and revolution: world war and an Irish rebellion; 9. Roger Casement and the aftermath of the Easter Rising; 10. Prison reform and military conscription in Ireland; 11. Radical sexual politics and post-war religion; 12. Final years; Afterword; Archival sources; Major publications by Eva Gore-Booth; Index.

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