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Papers by Karen Hunt

Research paper thumbnail of Gendering the Politics of the Working Woman’s Home

Research paper thumbnail of A comparison between women delegates at SDF and ILP Annual Conferences

Research paper thumbnail of The suffrage

Cambridge University Press eBooks, Mar 7, 1996

Research paper thumbnail of Fractured universality: the language of British socialism before the First World War

Research paper thumbnail of Making Politics in Local Communities: Labour Women in Interwar Manchester

Research paper thumbnail of Socialist Women and the Suffrage

Research paper thumbnail of Biographies and Political Journeys

Research paper thumbnail of SDP Women's Education Committee syllabus of subjects for discussion, 1910–11

Research paper thumbnail of Feminism and Political Theory

Research paper thumbnail of 15 LABOUR WOMAN and the Housewife

Edinburgh University Press eBooks, Dec 25, 2017

Research paper thumbnail of Labour Woman and the Housewife

Edinburgh University Press eBooks, 2018

The chapter discusses how Labour Party women engaged with the newly-enfranchised housewife betwee... more The chapter discusses how Labour Party women engaged with the newly-enfranchised housewife between the wars. It focuses on how Labour Woman represented the working-class housewife and the degree to which it enabled her to speak for herself. It chose everyday domestic life, traditionally assumed to be beyond politics, as the way to connect with unorganised women in their homes. In its Housewife Column the relevance of politics to women’s daily lives was explored through domestic topics such food prices, housework, washing and making clothes. Even with the increasing dominance of recipes and dress patterns in the 1930s, the journal continued to see the housewife as having agency and a distinct experience shaped by class. For Labour Woman interwar domesticity was neither cosy nor rationalised and modern, it was a space which provided the means to engage with the everyday lives of ordinary women.

Research paper thumbnail of The politics of the private sphere

Cambridge University Press eBooks, Mar 7, 1996

Research paper thumbnail of Rethinking the early years of the WSPU

Bulletin of the Marx Memorial Library, Mar 1, 2004

Research paper thumbnail of Short biographies of key figures

Research paper thumbnail of Timothy Larsen. Christobel Pankhurst: Fundamentalism and Feminism in Coalition. Rochester, N. Y.: Boydell Press. 2002. Pp. ix, 156. $75.00. ISBN 0 85115 905 2

Research paper thumbnail of Equivocal feminists: the Social Democratic Federation and the woman question, 1884-1911

Choice Reviews Online, Mar 1, 1997

Research paper thumbnail of Crozier-De rosa, Sharon, and Vera Mackie – Remembering Women’s Activism

Research paper thumbnail of Constructing the Woman Question

Research paper thumbnail of Fractured universality: the language of British socialism before the First World War

Languages of Labour, 2021

Research paper thumbnail of Making Politics in Local Communities: Labour Women in Interwar Manchester

Research paper thumbnail of Gendering the Politics of the Working Woman’s Home

Research paper thumbnail of A comparison between women delegates at SDF and ILP Annual Conferences

Research paper thumbnail of The suffrage

Cambridge University Press eBooks, Mar 7, 1996

Research paper thumbnail of Fractured universality: the language of British socialism before the First World War

Research paper thumbnail of Making Politics in Local Communities: Labour Women in Interwar Manchester

Research paper thumbnail of Socialist Women and the Suffrage

Research paper thumbnail of Biographies and Political Journeys

Research paper thumbnail of SDP Women's Education Committee syllabus of subjects for discussion, 1910–11

Research paper thumbnail of Feminism and Political Theory

Research paper thumbnail of 15 LABOUR WOMAN and the Housewife

Edinburgh University Press eBooks, Dec 25, 2017

Research paper thumbnail of Labour Woman and the Housewife

Edinburgh University Press eBooks, 2018

The chapter discusses how Labour Party women engaged with the newly-enfranchised housewife betwee... more The chapter discusses how Labour Party women engaged with the newly-enfranchised housewife between the wars. It focuses on how Labour Woman represented the working-class housewife and the degree to which it enabled her to speak for herself. It chose everyday domestic life, traditionally assumed to be beyond politics, as the way to connect with unorganised women in their homes. In its Housewife Column the relevance of politics to women’s daily lives was explored through domestic topics such food prices, housework, washing and making clothes. Even with the increasing dominance of recipes and dress patterns in the 1930s, the journal continued to see the housewife as having agency and a distinct experience shaped by class. For Labour Woman interwar domesticity was neither cosy nor rationalised and modern, it was a space which provided the means to engage with the everyday lives of ordinary women.

Research paper thumbnail of The politics of the private sphere

Cambridge University Press eBooks, Mar 7, 1996

Research paper thumbnail of Rethinking the early years of the WSPU

Bulletin of the Marx Memorial Library, Mar 1, 2004

Research paper thumbnail of Short biographies of key figures

Research paper thumbnail of Timothy Larsen. Christobel Pankhurst: Fundamentalism and Feminism in Coalition. Rochester, N. Y.: Boydell Press. 2002. Pp. ix, 156. $75.00. ISBN 0 85115 905 2

Research paper thumbnail of Equivocal feminists: the Social Democratic Federation and the woman question, 1884-1911

Choice Reviews Online, Mar 1, 1997

Research paper thumbnail of Crozier-De rosa, Sharon, and Vera Mackie – Remembering Women’s Activism

Research paper thumbnail of Constructing the Woman Question

Research paper thumbnail of Fractured universality: the language of British socialism before the First World War

Languages of Labour, 2021

Research paper thumbnail of Making Politics in Local Communities: Labour Women in Interwar Manchester