‘Guilty Women’, Foreign Policy, and Appeasement in Inter-War Britain, 1st ed. 2015

British women were deeply invested in foreign policy between the wars. This study casts new light on the turn to international affairs in feminist politics, the gendered representation and experience of the Munich Crisis, and the profound impression made by female public opinion on PM Neville Chamberlain in his negotiations with the dictators.

Julie V. Gottlieb is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Sheffield, UK. She has published widely on the relationship between gender and political history. She is the author of Feminine Fascism: Women in Britain's Fascist Movement, 1923-1945 (2000), and has co-edited The Culture of Fascism (2004), Making Reputations (2005), and The Aftermath of Suffrage (2013).

Julie Gottlieb has once again compelled a fresh understanding of a seemingly settled topic by injecting gender into the mix of elements to be analyzed and interpreted." Susan Kingsley Kent, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA This fascinating and important book opens up new vistas on 1930s Britain and on the study of foreign policy in general." David Reynolds, University of Cambridge, UK Her scholarly but highly readable book is bound to become a central point of reference in the field." Richard Toye, University of Exeter, UK