Women and Citizenship in Britain and Ireland in the 20th Century

Pat Thane is Leverhulme Professor of Contemporary British History at the Institute of Historical Research and Director at the Centre for Contemporary British History. Amongst her other books are The Long History of Old Age. Esther Breitenbach is a postdoctoral fellow in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh. She was previously a research fellow in Social Policy at the University of Edinburgh, and this included secondments to the Scottish Executive Equality Unit, and to the Women and Equality Unit in the Department of Trade and Industry. She has written widely on women in Scotland, and on gender equality and equal opportunities issues.

‘A timely book that, importantly, points also to the need for further research.'

• Introduction; 'Apathetic, parochial, conservative'? Women and elite/mass politics 1979 - present; Women in formal politics in Scotland, 1900 - 1990; Struggles for a voice and a place: women, parties and political representation 1979-present; Women, gender, nation and party: Wales 1918 - c. 1950; Devolution, State feminism and Engendering Policy - Progress and Challenges: Women's Political Representation in Wales; Representation in political institutions and political parties: Republic of Ireland; Conflicting rights: the struggle for female citizenship in Northern Ireland; Women, civil society and the state in England, c. 1900 - the present.; Women's organisations in civil society and their interaction with the state (c 1900 - c 1970); Feminist Politics and Devolution (1970s to present); Wales: from Women's Citizenship to Women's Liberation: two case studies; A fraught sisterhood?: Civil society organisations and women's voluntary activism in twentieth-century Ireland.