Negotiating the boundaries of the domestic: British socialist women and the politics of consumption

Women's History Review

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 389-410

  Hunt, Karen ^a  

^a MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1080/09612020000200247     Document Type: Review

References (71)

1. See K. Hunt (1997) Fractured Universality: the language of British Socialism before the First World War, in J. Belchem & N. Kirk (Eds) Languages of Labour (Aldershot: Ashgate).
2. H. Mitchell (1968) The Hard Way Up, p. 239 (London: Virago).
3. S. Rowbotham (1995) Consumer Power: women's contribution to alternatives and resistance to the market in the United States 1880-1940, in B. Einhorn & E. J. Yeo (Eds) Women and Market Societies: crisis and opportunity, p. 13 (Aldershot: Edward Elgar).
4. Food is not the only issue around which a politics of consumption could be made. Another example is rent. For an elaboration of these arguments, see J. Hannam & K. Hunt (forthcoming) Socialist Women (London: Routledge).
5. For a different approach to women and the politics of food, see M. Pugh (1991) Women, Food and Politics, 1880-1930 History Today, 41, pp. 14-20.
6. See, for example, E. P. Thompson (1971) The Moral Economy of the English Crowd in the Eighteenth Century, Past & Present, 50, pp. 76-136.
7. and his review of the subsequent literature in his (1991) Customs in Common, ch. 5 (London: Penguin).
8. For example, Thompson, 'The Moral Economy of the English Crowd', pp. 115-116.
9. J. Bohstedt (1988) Gender, Household and Community Politics: women in English riots 1790-1810, Past & Present, 120, pp. 88-122.
10. See also M. I. Thomis & J. Grimmett (1982) Women in Protest, 1800-1850, ch. 2 (London: Croom Helm).
11. For a counterview, see Thompson, Customs in Common, pp. 306-336.
12. Bohstedt, 'Gender, Household and Community Politics', p. 93.
13. A. J. Coles (1978) The Moral Economy of the Crowd: some twentieth-century food riots, Journal of British Studies, 18, pp. 157-176;
14. B. Waites (1985) The Government of the Home Front and the 'Moral Economy' of the Working Class, in P. H. Liddle (Ed.) Home Fires and Foreign Fields. British Social and Military Experience in the First World War, pp. 175-193 (London: Brassey's Defence Publishers).
15. Coles, 'The Moral Economy of the Crowd', p. 167.
16. B. Davis (1996) Food Scarcity and the Empowerment of the Female Consumer in World War I Berlin, in V. de Grazia & E. Furlough (Eds) The Sex of Things. Gender and Consumption in Historical Perspective, pp. 287-310 (Berkeley: University of California Press);
17. J. Smart (1986) Feminists, Food and the Fair Price: the cost of living demonstrations in Melbourne, August-September 1917, Labour History, 50, pp. 113-131;
18. T. Kaplan (1982) Female Consciousness and Collective Action: the case of Barcelona, 1910-18, Signs, 7, pp. 545-566.
19. Kaplan, 'Female Consciousness and Collective Action', p. 564.
20. Davis, 'Food Scarcity and the Empowerment of the Female Consumer', p. 289.
21. Smart, 'Feminists, Food and the Fair Price'.
22. T. Kaplan (1992) Red City, Blue Period. Social Movements in Picasso's Barcelona, p. 106 (Berkeley: University of California Press).
23. This is a reworking of her earlier article (1982), 'Female Consciousness and Collective Action'.
24. A. Clark (1995) The Struggle for the Breeches. Gender and the Making of the British Working Class, p. 228 (Berkeley: University of California Press).
25. J. Vernon (1993) Politics and the People. A Study in English Political Culture, p. 378 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). Unfortunately, these comments are in a footnote and are not developed further.
26. C. Midgley (1992) Women against Slavery. The British Campaigns 1780-1870, p. 40 (London: Routledge).
27. C. Midgley (1992) Women against Slavery. The British Campaigns 1780-1870, Ibid., p. 202.
28. Margaret Llewelyn Davies quoted in G. Scott (1998) Feminism and the Politics of Working Women. The Women's Co-operative Guild, 1880s to the Second World War, p. 3 (London: UCL Press).
29. M. L. Davies (Ed.) (1977 reprint edition) Life As We Have Known It, p. xiii (London: Virago; first published 1931, London: Hogarth).
30. See C. Webb (1927) The Woman with the Basket: the history of the Women's Co-operative Guild (Manchester: The Guild).
31. D. Frank (1994) Purchasing Power. Consumer Organizing, Gender and the Seattle Labor Movement, 1919-29, p. 6 (New York: Cambridge University Press).
32. D. Frank, Consumer Organizing, Gender and the Seattle Labor Movement, 1919-29, Ibid., p. 7.
33. S. Levine (1991) Workers' Wives: gender, class and consumerism in the 1920s United States, Gender and History, 3, p. 47.
34. D. Prank (1985) Housewives, Socialists, and the Politics of Food: the 1917 New York cost-of-living protests, Feminist Studies, 11, pp. 255-285.
35. D. Prank, Feminist Studies, Ibid., p. 281.
36. Justice, 9 September 1893.
37. Justice, 18 August 1894.
38. Labour Leader, 21 April 1894.
39. Labour Leader, 23 February 1895.
40. See K. Hunt & J. Hannam (1999) Propagandising as Socialist Women: the case of the women's columns in British socialist newspapers, 1884-1914, in B. Taithe & T. Thornton (Eds) Propaganda. Political Rhetoric and Identity 1300-2000 (Stroud: Sutton Publishing).
41. Justice, 19 January 1901.
42. See P. Gurney (1996) Co-operative Culture and the Politics of Consumption, 1870-1930, particularly ch. 7 (Manchester: Manchester University Press).
43. See Hicks's earlier thoughts on the practical organisation of socialist women, Clarion, 23 February 1912.
44. The Link, July 1912, p. 4.
45. Justice, 26 October 1912.
46. Justice, 7 June 1913.
47. Daily Herald, 9 March 1914.
48. Justice, 1 January 1914.
49. The Link, February 1913, p. 5.
50. Clarion, 20 June 1913.
51. The Woman's Dreadnought, 3 October 1914.
52. Socialist Record, October 1914.
53. Socialist Record, January 1915.
54. See R. Harrison (1971) The War Emergency Workers' National Committee, 1914-20, in A. Briggs & J. Saville (Eds) Essays in Labour History 1886-1923, pp. 211-259 (London: Macmillan);
55. J. M. Winter (1974) Socialism and the Challenge of War. Ideas and Politics in Britain 1912-18, ch. 7 (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul).
56. Winter, Socialism and the Challenge of War, pp. 199-202.
57. Justice, 21 January 1915.
58. Labour Leader, 5 March 1914;
59. League Leaflet, November 1912, p. 8.
60. Women's Labour League Executive Committee Minute Book, 25 January 1914, 20 February 1914, 27 March 1914, 22 April 1914.
61. B. Winslow (1996) Sylvia Pankhurst. Sexual Politics and Political Activism, pp. 91-92 (London: UCL Press).
62. B. Winslow, Sylvia Pankhurst. Sexual Politics and Political Activism, Ibid., p. 93.
63. J. Bush (1984) Behind the Lines. East London Labour 1914-19, p. 43 (London: Merlin Press).
64. For example, The Call, 6 July 1916.
65. The Call, 10 May 1917.
66. The Call, 14 February 1918.
67. Sir W. H. Beveridge (1928) British Food Control, p. 196 (London: Oxford University Press). Beveridge worked as a senior civil servant at the Ministry of Food from December 1916 to September 1919.
68. B. Waites (1987) A Class Society at War. England 1914-18, p. 229 (Leamington Spa: Berg).
69. B. Waites, A Class Society at War. England 1914-18, Ibid.
70. For the Consumer Council and its context see L. M. Barnett (1985) British Food Policy during the First World War (London: Allen & Unwin).
71. L. M. Barnett, British Food Policy during the First World War, Ibid., p. 154.