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Eva Gore-Booth : An image of such politics
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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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Manchester University Press,
2016.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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.