Beschreibung:
Maroula Joannou is Emerita Professor at Anglia Ruskin University attached to the Labour History Research Unit. She has published over forty book chapters and articles in peer-reviewed journals. She is the author of The Mobile Woman and the Migrant Voice and editor of volume eight of the Palgrave History of British Women's Writing,
This is the first critical study of Clara Dorothea Rackham née Tabor (1875-1966), a towering figure in the suffrage, labour, co-operative, peace and adult education movements but virtually forgotten today.
0. Introduction 1. Young Clara 2. 'Better is Wisdom than Weapons of War': Suffragist and Factory Inspector 3. 'Cambridge's Clara': Labour Councillor and Magistrate 4. 'That Intolerable Woman': Fighting for the Unemployed 5. War 6. After the Deluge