British Politics

, Volume 10, Issue 1, pp 41–51 | Cite as

Margaret Thatcher: To be or not to be a woman

  • Beatrix Campbell
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Abstract

Margaret Thatcher became the first woman to be elected to lead the Conservative Party in 1975 – UN international year of women. Her leadership and her persona were saturated with the thoroughly gendered politics of the Tory tradition and its encounter with contemporary feminism. Was she a woman premier or was she a premier for women?

Keywords

Thatcherism gender feminism women neoliberalism 
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© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Ltd 2015

Authors and Affiliations

  • Beatrix Campbell
    • 1
  1. 1.Freelance journalist

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