LEADER 04739nam 22006015 450 001 9910482960303321 005 20200701182827.0 010 $a3-030-14288-4 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-14288-9 035 $a(CKB)4100000008153978 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5771571 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-14288-9 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000008153978 100 $a20190509d2019 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aLabour Women in Power $eCabinet Ministers in the Twentieth Century /$fby Paula Bartley 205 $a1st ed. 2019. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2019. 215 $a1 online resource (324 pages) 311 $a3-030-14287-6 327 $aChapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: A Woman in a Man?s World: Margaret Bondfield?s Early Career, 1873-1929 -- Chapter 3: Over the Glass Cliff: The First Female Cabinet Minister, 1929-1953 -- Chapter 4: The Mighty Atom: Ellen Wilkinson, 1891-1945 -- Chapter 5: The First Female Minister of Education, 1945-1947 -- Chapter 6: A Political Apprenticeship: Barbara Castle, 1910-1964 -- Chapter 7: In and Out of Cabinet, 1964-2002 -- Chapter 8: From Burnley to Lanark: Judith Hart, 1924-1968 -- Chapter 9: The First Woman Paymaster General and Beyond, 1968-1991 -- Chapter 10: Climbing the Parliamentary Ladder: Shirley Williams, 1930-1974 -- Chapter 11: In the Cabinet and Out of Labour, 1974-2018 -- Chapter 12: Conclusion. 330 $a?It is really shocking that the earliest women Cabinet Ministers have almost been forgotten. Most haven?t heard of Margaret Bondfield - the first. Many have heard of Ellen Wilkinson, but few know she was a Cabinet Minister. Judith Hart is almost lost. Not so Barbara Castle and Shirley Williams. These are the total sum of Labour Cabinet Ministers up to 1997. Paula Bartley has produced a highly readable and informative history. It is really important that these women?s achievements are remembered and celebrated.? - Clare Short, Former MP, 1983-2010, and Secretary of State for International Development 1997-2003, UK ?This fascinating and scholarly study is a key text for anyone with an interest in women?s history and politics.? - Maggie Andrews, Professor of Cultural History, University of Worcester, UK This book examines the political lives and contributions of Margaret Bondfield, Ellen Wilkinson, Barbara Castle, Judith Hart and Shirley Williams, the only five women to achieve Cabinet rank in a Labour Government from the party?s creation until Blair became Prime Minister. Paula Bartley brings together newly discovered archival material and published work to provide a survey of these women, all of whom managed to make a mark out of all proportion to their numbers. Charting their ideas, characters, and formative influences, Bartley provides an account of their rise to power, analysing their contribution to policy making, and assessing their significance and reputation. She shows that these women were not a homogeneous group, but came from diverse family backgrounds, entered politics in their own discrete way, and rose to power at different times. Some were more successful than others, but despite their diversity these women shared one thing in common: they all functioned in a male world. 606 $aHistory 606 $aGreat Britain?History 606 $aIdentity politics 606 $aWomen 606 $aWorld politics 606 $aPopular Science in History$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/Q33030 606 $aHistory of Britain and Ireland$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/717020 606 $aPolitics and Gender$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/911260 606 $aWomen's Studies$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X35040 606 $aPolitical History$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/911080 615 0$aHistory. 615 0$aGreat Britain?History. 615 0$aIdentity politics. 615 0$aWomen. 615 0$aWorld politics. 615 14$aPopular Science in History. 615 24$aHistory of Britain and Ireland. 615 24$aPolitics and Gender. 615 24$aWomen's Studies. 615 24$aPolitical History. 676 $a328.082 676 $a320.0820941 700 $aBartley$b Paula$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0911535 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910482960303321 996 $aLabour Women in Power$92846979 997 $aUNINA