Struggle and Suffrage in Wakefield
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Struggle and Suffrage in Wakefield

Women's Lives and the Fight for Equality

  1. 210 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Struggle and Suffrage in Wakefield

Women's Lives and the Fight for Equality

About this book

Much has been written about the men of Wakefield, but apart from a couple of well-documented individuals, the women of Wakefield have remained largely ignored. Yet many women in this prosperous West Riding town worked hard to improve their lives and those of other women. Whether this was healthcare, housing, working conditions or providing refuge and training so that girls with no means of support could be made fit for employment, Wakefield's women worked separately and together to achieve their mutual goals. Some were active campaigners and lobbyists, others chose vocations that quietly improved the lives of the women around them. Struggle and Suffrage in Wakefield uses historical newspaper articles, minutes of meetings, annual reports, first-hand stories and research into census returns to illustrate how women's lives changed over a 100 year period and reveal some of those Wakefield women whose influence made things happen.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Foreword
  6. Chapter One Wakefield, an introduction
  7. Chapter Two Educating and Training Wakefield’s Girls
  8. Chapter Three The Working Lives of Wakefield’s Ordinary Women
  9. Chapter Four Wakefield’s Women in the Professions
  10. Chapter Five The Health and Well-being of the Women of Wakefield
  11. Chapter Six Wakefield’s Active Citizens
  12. Chapter Seven Women’s Progress in Wakefield
  13. Notes
  14. Appendix 1 Wakefield Prison Female Staff
  15. Appendix 2 Wartime Nurseries Staff
  16. Appendix 3 Wakefield’s Voluntary Aid Detachment
  17. Appendix 4 Babies Welcome Team on Mental and Child Welfare Subcommittee
  18. Appendix 5 Wakefield’s Healthcare Staff
  19. Bibliography
  20. Resources
  21. Plates Section