Feminine Fascism

Cheryl Buckley is Reader in Design History and Hilary Fawcett is Senior Lecturer in Design History, both in the School of Humanities, University of Northumbria.

• Introduction - feminine Fascism - women in Britain's Fascist movement, 1923-45; feminized Fascism - Rotha Lintorn-Orman and the British Fascists, 1923-35; women in the British Union of Fascists - organization and forms of participation; the ideology of feminine Fascism; the legacy of the suffragettes to British Fascism; Mosley's women and Mosley's woman - the leader's sexual politics; behind bars and barbed wire - women's experiences of internment under defence regulation 18B, 1940-45; conclusion -women, Fascism and fanaticism, past and present; appendix - who's who in the history of women and Fascism in Britain.

'...it must be emphatically stated that this is both an original and important book which has major significance for both gender studies, and the history of British Fascism.' -English Historical Review 'If anyone was tempted to believe, given the plethora of works on British fascism, that there was little left to say, Julia Gottlieb's Feminine Fascism would disabuse them.' -Times Higher Education