Mrs. Brown Is a Man and a Brother: Women in Merseyside's Political Organisations 1890-1920

Cowman (history, Leeds Metropolitan U.) finds the Women's Social and Political Union to be the best, but not only, example in Liverpool of how the theory that women comprised a separate class and could best access the political sphere and affect a feminist transformation of society by organizing only with other women. She also looks at women in trade unions, early political activity, the Liverpool Women's Suffrage Society, other suffrage organizations, later political party activity, and World War I. The study was her dissertation, but she is coy about when and where. It is distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR