The women who wouldn't wheesht : voices from the frontline of Scotland's battle for women's rights
2025
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On the 25th anniversary of the Scottish Parliament, this book captures an important moment in contemporary history: how a grassroots women's movement, harking back to the suffragettes and second wave feminists of the 1970s and 1980s, took on the political establishment - and changed the course of history. Through a collection of over 30 essays and photographs, some of the women involved tell the story of the five-year campaign to protect women's sex-based rights. It is the story of women who risked their job, reputation, even the bonds of family and friendship, to make their voices heard, and ended up - unexpectedly - contributing to the downfall of Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland's first woman first minister. Above all, it is the story of the women who wouldn't wheesht!
Main title:
The women who wouldn't wheesht : voices from the frontline of Scotland's battle for women's rights / edited by Susan Dalgety and Lucy Hunter Blackburn.
Author:
Dalgety, Susan, editorBlackburn, Lucy Hunter, editor
Imprint:
London : Constable, 2025.
Collation:
x, 373 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2024.Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
9781408720721 (pbk)
Dewey class:
323.3409411323.34323.3409323.340941
LC class:
HQ1236.5.G7
Local class:
323.34323.34094
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
4156057
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