Lisa Jardine

Julia Swindells

First published in 1990. What had been left out of Left thought? What had allowed the Left to substitute nostalgia for programme and action, and to continue to address itself exclusively to labouring men, despite insistent demands for inclusion from others – notably women – who recognised themselves as belonging to the Left? What’s Left?, a feminist challenge to the male-dominated ideology of the Labour Party, took shape under the pressure of two crucial events: the third successive election defeat of Labour by the Conservative Party, and the death of Raymond Williams. Swindells and Jardine analyse the difficulties the Left had including women in its account of class, to clarify general problems in British Left thought. They conclude that there was a serious and widely-perceived discrepancy between the Labour Party’s model of working-class consciousness and the experiences of the contemporary workforce as a whole. An important exploration of the intellectual history of the Labour Movement, What’s Left? looks critically at the Left from within the Left. It will be fascinating reading for students of cultural studies, history, politics and women’s studies.

Women in Culture and the Labour Movement

What's Left?

Sigmund Freud

Eden Paul

Cedar Paul

This richly expressive diary, kept by a young Viennese school girl in the early 1900s, chronicles her passage from childhood to puberty with an honesty that scandalized the anonymous author's contemporaries.

Prefaced with a Letter by Sigmund Freud

A Young Girl's Diary

Glorious Causes explores the British nation as a stage for reform in the late Georgian era. Liberation movements for social and political change, for slaves, for factory and rural workers, for women, and for the vote, drew their energies crucially from theatre as well as political agitation, together creating the drama of reform.

The Grand Theatre of Political Change, 1789 to 1833

Glorious Causes

Sharon McClanahan Setzer

Women's Theatrical Memoirs: v. 6. Elizabeth Steele, The memoirs of Mrs Sophia Baddeley (1787), vols. I-II

Julia Swindells

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