The Matriarchs of England's Cooperative Movement: A Study in Gender Politics and Female Leadership, 1883-1921

by Barbara J. Blaszak

Current thinking considers the Women's Cooperative Guild within the English Cooperative Movement to have been an independent and democratically run organization whose leaders built sisterhood across class lines and achieved many benefits for married working-class women. This study of the dynamics of gender within the movement between 1883 and 1921 arrives at different conclusions. Blaszak examines what freedoms of speech and activity women were...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313309957
• ISBN13: 9780313309953
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.6"