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Women in the organisation of the Conservative Party in Wales, 1945–1979
Sam Blaxland
Women's History Review, Pages: 1 - 21
Swansea University Author: Sam Blaxland
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DOI (Published version): 10.1080/09612025.2018.1482654
Abstract
Women were vital to the health and survival of the Conservative Party in Wales during the period 1945-1979, and yet they - like the party more generally in Wales - have been understudied and misinterpreted. Although they were often bastions of social conservatism, some of these women from the right...
| Published in: | Women's History Review |
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| ISSN: | 0961-2025 1747-583X |
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2018
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa40710 |
| Abstract: |
Women were vital to the health and survival of the Conservative Party in Wales during the period 1945-1979, and yet they - like the party more generally in Wales - have been understudied and misinterpreted. Although they were often bastions of social conservatism, some of these women from the right broke the mould of a traditional Tory lady, acting as brave and independently-minded political campaigners, reflecting more of the features of second-wave feminism than even they would have admitted. Another traditional aspect of women's activity in local Conservative Associations was back-room office work, but this article suggests that there was more to their political identities than this: these groups could be a conduit for middle-class women to exercise a form of social and organisational leadership. Therefore, many were far from the coy and passive figures that they tend to be stereotyped as. |
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| Keywords: |
Women, Conservatives, Wales, leadership, feminism |
| College: |
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |
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1 |
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21 |