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The First World War in a ‘women’s town’: Dundee 1914–1922
Women's History Review Pub Date : 2021-01-08 , DOI: 10.1080/09612025.2020.1864886
Jim Tomlinson 1
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ABSTRACT

This article re-examines long-standing arguments about the impact of the First World War on women’s lives by using the unusual, distinctive case of Dundee. By the late nineteenth-century Dundee had acquired the reputation as a ‘women’s town’. This designation was highly problematic, but it was based on the reality of the unusually high proportion of women employed in the city’s key industry, jute. This distinctive starting point meant that the direct impact of the war on women’s employment was noticeably smaller than elsewhere in Britain. Most women continued to be employed in jute. Nevertheless, despite this relative stability in the distribution of employment, there is evidence of substantial enhancement of women’s civic and political engagement, up to and in the immediate aftermath of women’s parliamentary enfranchisement in 1918. In the general election of 1922, in a city with a majority of women voters, Winston Churchill was defeated as a Liberal Party candidate.



中文翻译:

“妇女之城”的第一次世界大战:邓迪 1914-1922

摘要

本文通过使用邓迪不同寻常的独特案例,重新审视了关于第一次世界大战对女性生活影响的长期争论。到 19 世纪后期,邓迪已经获得了“女性之城”的美誉。这一名称存在很大问题,但它是基于该市主要行业黄麻就业的女性比例异常高的现实。这一独特的起点意味着战争对女性就业的直接影响明显小于英国其他地方。大多数妇女继续从事黄麻工作。然而,尽管就业分配相对稳定,但有证据表明,在 1918 年妇女获得议会选举权之前和之后,妇女的公民和政治参与显着增强。

更新日期:2021-01-08
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