On 6 February 1918, the Representation of the People Act was passed; it enfranchised all men over twenty‐one and women over the age of thirty if either they or their husband met the requisite property qualifications. In public and media history this legislation was regarded as a reward for women's contribution to the war effort and evidence that one of the legacies of the First World War was a range of new opportunities for women.1 This historical narrative has remained stubbornly in place during the four years of the First World War centenary commemoration, although it disregards the degree to which women's experience of the conflict was infinitely varied, influenced by class, age, marital status and a multitude of other factors including whether women were urban or rural dwellers. This article makes the case for the importance of local studies, which have the potential to remind us that a national narrative is not necessarily the national narrative and that global wars have local and personal consequences at the time and in the years that follow. It is, after all, in the mundane and the everyday where gender politics play out, in the multiple, sometimes minute, interactions reliant upon the exercise and internalization of power in intimate and very personal spaces. It is in the politics of the home, the street, the workplace or leisure spaces that power relations are worked through, challenged, stretched and reinterpreted.

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伍斯特郡的妇女：地方研究和第一次世界大战的性别政治及其遗产

1918 年 2 月 6 日，《人民代表法》获得通过；如果他们或他们的丈夫符合必要的财产资格，它赋予所有 21 岁以上的男性和 30 岁以上的女性以选举权。在公共和媒体历史上，这项立法被视为对妇女对战争努力的贡献的奖励，并证明第一次世界大战的遗产之一是妇女的一系列新机会。 1 这一历史叙述在第一次世界大战百年纪念的四年，尽管它忽略了妇女在冲突中的经历的无限变化程度，受阶级、年龄、婚姻状况以及包括妇女是城市居民还是农村居民在内的众多其他因素的影响。这篇文章论证了地方研究的重要性，它有可能提醒我们，国家叙事不一定是国家叙事，全球战争在当时和随后的几年中会对地方和个人产生影响。毕竟，在性别政治上演的平凡和日常中，在依赖于在亲密和非常私人的空间中行使和内化权力的多重、有时是微小的互动中。正是在家庭、街道、工作场所或休闲空间的政治中，权力关系得到解决、挑战、延伸和重新解释。这有可能提醒我们，国家叙事不一定是国家叙事，全球战争在当时和随后的几年中会产生地方和个人后果。毕竟，在性别政治上演的平凡和日常中，在依赖于权力在亲密和非常私人的空间中行使和内化的多重、有时是微小的互动中。正是在家庭、街道、工作场所或休闲空间的政治中，权力关系得到解决、挑战、延伸和重新解释。这有可能提醒我们，国家叙事不一定是国家叙事，全球战争在当时和随后的几年中会产生地方和个人后果。毕竟，在性别政治上演的平凡和日常中，在依赖于在亲密和非常私人的空间中行使和内化权力的多重、有时是微小的互动中。正是在家庭、街道、工作场所或休闲空间的政治中，权力关系得到解决、挑战、延伸和重新解释。