{"product_id":"the-life-and-turbulent-times-of-clara-dorothea-rackham-9780367373931","title":"The Life and Turbulent Times of Clara Dorothea","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the first critical study of Clara Dorothea Rackham \u003cem\u003enÃe Tabor\u003c\/em\u003e (1875â1966), a towering figure in the suffrage, labour, co-operative, peace, and adult education movements but virtually forgotten today. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis clearly written and engaging study is based on unpublished primary sources including Rackhamâs unpublished speeches, letters, diaries, and contemporary media coverage of her work in local and national archives. It reassesses this remarkable woman not only as a politician who changed the face of Cambridge, the university city in which she lived and worked, but also as a public intellectual whose feminist advocacy of a fair, just, and equal society helped pave the way to Britainâs postwar settlement and Welfare State. Rackham came to prominence as Chairman of the National Union of Womenâs Suffrage Societies, as a government factory inspector, and championing the rights of unemployed women in the 1930s. An early broadcaster on BBC radio, and among the first wome\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51017884172631,"sku":"9780367373931","price":37.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780367373931.jpg?v=1750774982","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-life-and-turbulent-times-of-clara-dorothea-rackham-9780367373931","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}