Towards the end of the 1830s, large numbers of British working men and women rallied round the People's Charter in order to improve their living conditions through universal suffrage. Women's wide-ranging support of Chartism encompassed everything from extensive lecturing tours to domestic servicing of politically active menfolk. In this first full-length study of women's involvement in Chartism, the author demonstrates that, in their struggle, which lasted for more than a decade, Chartist men and women enforced in their own ranks standards of respectable man- and womanhood that were to shape working-class gender relations well into this century.

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JUTTA SCHWARZKOPF

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Book Title: Women in the Chartist Movement
Authors: Jutta Schwarzkopf
Series Title: Studies in Gender History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230379619
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1991
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-53915-6Published: 31 October 1991
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-37961-9Published: 31 October 1991
Series ISSN: 2947-082X
Series E-ISSN: 2947-0838
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 337
Topics: Clinical Psychology, Gender Studies, Human Rights, Political Communication, History of Britain and Ireland

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