Arianne Chernock

The Right to Rule and the Rights of Women

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. August 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 385g
• ISBN-13: 9781108735377
• ISBN-10: 1108735371
• Artikelnr.: 60021855

Autorenporträt

Arianne Chernock is Associate Professor in the Department of History at Boston University. Her first book, Men and the Making of Modern British Feminism (2010), was awarded the John Ben Snow Prize by the North American Conference on British Studies. She frequently contributes to print, television and radio outlets.

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction: a mad, wicked folly?
1. The radicalism of female rule in eighteenth-century Britain
2. 'An argument of a very popular character': Queen Victoria in the early women's movement, c. 1832-76
3. Rethinking the 'right to rule' in Victorian Britain
4. The anti-suffragists' Queen
5. 'No more fitting commemoration'?: Reclaiming Victoria for the women's movement during the Golden and Diamond Jubilees
Conclusion: Queen Victoria versus the suffragettes: the politics of queenship in Edwardian Britain
A note on sources
Bibliography
Index.