{"id":928,"date":"2020-07-09T13:00:36","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T12:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/astor100\/?p=928"},"modified":"2020-09-14T11:18:11","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T10:18:11","slug":"olh-special-collection-nancy-astor-public-women-and-gendered-political-culture-in-interwar-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/astor100\/olh-special-collection-nancy-astor-public-women-and-gendered-political-culture-in-interwar-britain\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Article by Professor Pat Thane kicks off our OLH Special Collection: Nancy Astor, Public Women and Gendered Political Culture in Interwar Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are very pleased to announce that the long needed &#8216;go to&#8217; collection on Nancy Astor is now live at the Open Library of Humanities.\u00a0The Special Collection is edited by <a href=\"https:\/\/researchprofiles.herts.ac.uk\/portal\/en\/persons\/daniel-grey(0625e05a-9405-4280-b0ce-d85f4df9b0f8).html\">Dr Daniel Grey (University of Hertfordshire)<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/history\/about\/staff\/e-j-turner.aspx\">Dr Jacqui Turner (University of Reading)<\/a>. Daniel Grey is Head of History at Hertfordshire and has published extensively on women, crime and the state. Jacqui Turner is Associate Professor of Modern British Political History and curator of the national Astor100 centenary programme.<\/p>\n<p>Articles will be added on an ongoing basis &#8211; keep an eye on this space and the list of articles below:<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-caption\">\n<div class=\"article-actions\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-930\" src=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/astor100\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2020\/07\/Picture1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"736\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/astor100\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2020\/07\/Picture1.png 736w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/astor100\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2020\/07\/Picture1-300x135.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" \/><\/p>\n<h5>Collection launched: 06 Jul 2020<\/h5>\n<p>2019 marked the centenary of Nancy Astor\u2019s election to the British Parliament becoming the first woman to take her seat and thus changing democracy forever. Astor was \u2018An Unconventional MP\u2019 and this collection considers the parliamentary politics and the gendered culture of the early C20th in which she operated. It engages with ways in which history has influenced the present, conceptualising a \u2018future\u2019 grounded in the gendered restrictions of the past. It considers how the identities of Astor and other women were constructed and deployed and how her career has generated gendered discourses on government, citizenship and transformation. This special collection is eclectic in its contributors and contributions; articles address a range of approaches to Astor and her period &#8211; new perspectives on Astor, and beyond engagement with Astor as an individual, consideration of issues of gender identity, difference and representation. They provide a new voice and a new legacy.<\/p>\n<p>(Cover image Courtesy of The Box Plymouth in association with Astor100).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/olh.openlibhums.org\/collections\/special\/an-unconventional-mp-nancy-astor-public-women-and-gendered-political-culture-in-interwar-britain\/\">OLH Special Collection: Nancy Astor Public Women and Gendered Political Culture in Interwar Britain<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1>Collection Articles<\/h1>\n<p><strong>01\/07\/2020: Professor Pat Thane, &#8216;<\/strong><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.08px\"><strong>Nancy Astor, Women and Politics, 1919\u20131945&#8242;\u00a0<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/olh.openlibhums.org\/articles\/10.16995\/olh.542\/\">here\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"authors\">\n<p><strong>Abstract:<\/strong> Nancy Astor was the first woman elected to the House of Commons, in 1919. She succeeded her husband in his Plymouth constituency when he inherited a seat in the House of Lords, so avoided the discrimination which for decades prevented the selection of many women for winnable seats. She was not a suffragist, or, when elected, a feminist, but the hostility of many men, in and out of parliament, to her presence in the Commons stimulated her support for some, though not all, causes for which the women\u2019s movement campaigned. She promoted equal pay, equal work opportunities, custody rights and the equal franchise, among other things, with some success, but was dubious about divorce and birth control due to her faith in Christian Science and its moral strictures. She was passionately anti-war, so like other feminists and pacifists was an \u2018appeaser\u2019. She was not a \u2018crypto-Nazi\u2019 as she was, and sometimes is, represented. She facilitated contact between women activists and MPs, male and female, and encouraged cross-party co-operation among women MPs. She was a popular and regular public speaker and widened the appeal of many aims of the women\u2019s movement among women who were dubious about feminism. She was a Conservative who never followed the party line and an active promoter of state welfare measures, especially for young children. She was popular in Plymouth and supported her constituents through World War Two, but stood down in 1945 and left politics when Labour was likely to win the seat in the landslide election. Overall, her greatest contribution is that she significantly raised the profile of women in British politics and assisted the very gradual shift to greater gender equality and expansion of state welfare between the wars and through World War Two.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"authors\"><span class=\"span-how-to\"><strong>How to Cite:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><span class=\"span-citation\">Thane, P., 2020. Nancy Astor, Women and Politics, 1919\u20131945.\u00a0<i>Open Library of Humanities<\/i>, 6(2), p.1. 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After spending several years working in heritage, I remain interested in archives and collections, material culture, museums and heritage.","sameAs":["https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/history\/our-staff\/jacqui-turner","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/dr-jacqui-turner-09b994110\/"],"url":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/astor100\/author\/e-j-turnerreading-ac-uk\/"}]}},"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/astor100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/astor100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/astor100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/astor100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/astor100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=928"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/astor100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1093,"href":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/astor100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928\/revisions\/1093"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/astor100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/astor100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/astor100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/astor100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}