The feminine public sphere : middle-class women and civic life in Scotland, c. 1870-1914 / Megan Smitley.

At a time when women were barred from clerical roles, middle-class women made use of the informal power structures of Victorian and Edwardian associationalism in order to actively participate as citizens. This investigation of women's part in civic life provides a fresh approach to the 'pu...

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Main Author: Smitley, Megan K. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2009.
Series:Gender in history.
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