Women as Active Citizens: Glasgow and Edinburgh c .1918–1939.
This article examines evidence of active political engagement by women in Edinburgh and Glasgow in the inter-war years of the twentieth century. While discussing the wider context of women's political activities in this period, in terms of party politics and the range of women's organisations in exi...
| Publicado en: | Women's History Review Vol. 23; no. 3; pp. 401 - 421 |
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