Sharon Thompson is Reader in Law at Cardiff University, UK.

I believe this book to be of central importance to scholars studying the history of women and feminist movements, and family law in the twentieth century. It is so rare for a legal history book to truly convey how and why the law developed in the way it did, and the significance of these developments to the people subject to the legislation. In Quiet Revolutionaries, Sharon Thompson has raised the bar for those of us working in the field.

• Foreword by Brenda Hale, Baroness Hale of RichmondAcknowledgmentsTimelineArchive ReferencesList of AbbreviationsPrologue: After the Vote1. Quiet Revolutionaries2. Housewives: ‘That Vast Army of the Great Unpaid’Interlude: Juanita Frances3. A Composite Portrait4. A New Marriage Law5. Mrs BlackwellInterlude: A Note About Lord Denning6. The SplitInterlude: Reform Movements Are Like Builders7. One Step at a Time8. Resistance as a Reform StrategyInterlude: Poor Reggie9. Two Steps Forward, One Step Back10. A Subterranean InfluenceAfterwordBibliographyIndex

Sharon Thompson is Reader in Law at Cardiff University, UK.

I believe this book to be of central importance to scholars studying the history of women and feminist movements, and family law in the twentieth century. It is so rare for a legal history book to truly convey how and why the law developed in the way it did, and the significance of these developments to the people subject to the legislation. In Quiet Revolutionaries, Sharon Thompson has raised the bar for those of us working in the field.

• Foreword by Brenda Hale, Baroness Hale of RichmondAcknowledgmentsTimelineArchive ReferencesList of AbbreviationsPrologue: After the Vote1. Quiet Revolutionaries2. Housewives: ‘That Vast Army of the Great Unpaid’Interlude: Juanita Frances3. A Composite Portrait4. A New Marriage Law5. Mrs BlackwellInterlude: A Note About Lord Denning6. The SplitInterlude: Reform Movements Are Like Builders7. One Step at a Time8. Resistance as a Reform StrategyInterlude: Poor Reggie9. Two Steps Forward, One Step Back10. A Subterranean InfluenceAfterwordBibliographyIndex