Women in Protest 1800-1850

by Malcolm I. Thomis and Jennifer Grimmett

Book Overview

There is still much uncertainty about the role of nineteenth-century British women in social and political protest. As politics was a man's world virtually all official accounts and statistics of popular protest deal only with the men involved. It is well known that women participated in food riots and mobilised support for Chartism, and as the dramatic changes in the economy during this period greatly increased the demand for women's labour, this...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138008133
• ISBN13: 9781138008137
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"