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

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Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2009.

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Description	1 online resource (189 pages).
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	Gender in History
	Gender in history.
Contents	Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. The organisations; 2. The feminine public sphere; 3. Temperance reform and the feminine public sphere; 4. The women's movement and female temperance reform; 5. New views of the women' suffrage campaign:Liberal women and regional perspectives; Conclusion; Appendix 1; Appendix 2; Appendix 3; Appendix 4; Appendix 5; Appendix 6; Bibliography; Index.
Summary	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 'public sphere', illuminates women as agents of a middle-class identity and develops the notion of a 'feminine public sphere', or the web of associations, institutions and discourses used by disenfranchised middle-class women to express their citizenship. The extent of middle-class women's contribution to civic l.
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Subject	Middle class women -- Scotland -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
	Middle class women.
	Scotland.
	Social conditions.
Chronological Term	19th century
Subject	Middle class women -- Scotland -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Chronological Term	20th century
Subject	Citizenship -- Scotland.
	Citizenship.
	Civics, British.
	Civics, British.
	Women -- Political activity -- Scotland.
	Women -- Political activity.
Chronological Term	1800-1999
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Electronic books.
Subject	Women.
	Womyn.
Other Form:	Print version: Smitley, Megan. Feminine public sphere. Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2009 9780719079665
ISBN	9781847793461 electronic book
	1847793460 electronic book

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

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