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Parliamentary Affairs Advance Access originally published online on January 18, 2009
Parliamentary Affairs 2009 62(2):211-226; doi:10.1093/pa/gsn052
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This article appears in the following Parliamentary Affairs issue: ANALYSING PARTY ACTIVISM [View the issue table of contents]

Rethinking Activism: Lessons from the History of Women's Politics

Karen Hunt

Keele University
UK

Correspondence: k.hunt{at}his.keele.ac.uk

The study of women's politics in the past raises important questions for research on party activism of whatever sort, whether undertaken by historians or political scientists. The evidence discussed here is drawn from research on British women's politics from the 1880s to the 1920s, particularly, but not exclusively, from the experience of socialist, Labour and Communist women. However, it is argued that the issues raised have a much broader resonance. By reflecting on continuities and changes in the practice of women's politics, the case is made for the transformative effect of the adoption of a comparative and contextual approach to the study of activism.


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