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The initial questions of this study were (i) whether the idea that women have something special to offer in achieving social revolution could be put into practice through the mechanism of the Labour Party, and (ii) whether Labour Party men, by shutting their eyes and their ears to women’s special gifts, impeded social change. Both these questions of course take it for granted that there is a special contribution women can make. Theory about women as a group and their different goals over time has here been called feminism, and described in its various stages. A third question has been posed, whether Labour women were influenced by and contributed to feminist theory and practice. Also recognized has been the importance of external influences affecting women’s Labour Party participation, notably war and economic change.
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José Harris, ‘Labour’s Political and Social Thought’, in Duncan Tanner, Pat Thane and Nick Tiratsoo (eds), Labour’s First Century (Cambridge University Press, 2000) is a good overview of changes in theory.
There is a good discussion of the different meanings of New Labour in Steven Driver and Steve Martell, New Labour (Polity, 2006).
Patrick Seyd and Paul Whitely, New Labour’s Grassroots: The Transformation of the Labour Party Membership (Palgrave MacMillan, 2002) records that 6 out of every 10 members are male.
Janet Newman, Modernising Governance: New Labour, Policy and Society (Sage, 2001), p. 177.
See also Pam Tatlow, ‘Rights for Labour Women’, in Sue Sturgeon and John Hurley (eds), Reforming Labour: Reclaiming the People’s Party (Polemic Books, 2001).
Polly Toynbee and David Walker, Better or Worse: Has Labour Delivered? (Blomsbury Publishing, 2005).
Anna Coote, ‘Feminism and the Third Way: A Call for Dialogue’, in Stuart White (ed.), New Labour:the Progressive Future (Palgrave, 2001).
Harriet Harman and Deborah Mattison, Winning for Women (Fabian Pamphlet 596, 2001).
The feminist argument about citizenship as most accessibly put in Jan Jindy Pettman, Worlding Women: A Feminist International Politics (Routledge, 1996).
See also Julia Kristeva, ‘Women’s Time’, Signs, 7 (1) 1981.
Ruth Lister, Citizenship: Feminist Perspectives (Routledge, 1997), p. 66.
Collette, Christine, The International Faith: Labour’s Attitudes to European Socialism, 1918–1939 (Ashgate, 1998).
Mrs Barton, Married Women and Paid Positions: A Plea for Solidarity Amongst Women (Co-operative Women’s Guild 1934).
Judith Butler, Bodies that Matter (New York, 1993), p. 30.
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Collette, C. (2009). Conclusion. In: The Newer Eve. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230236981_5
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