‘The voice of the true British housewife’: the politics of housewifery at Labour’s women’s conferences, 1945–1959
Drawing on the records of Labour’s annual women’s conference, this article analyses why, how and with what effects women activists in the Labour Party claimed to represent ‘the housewife’ in post-war Britain. Building on longstanding traditions on the left, Labour women saw a politics of housewifery...
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Routledge
2023
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