The Women's Suffrage movement

*New feminist perspectives*
Herausgeber: Joannou, Maroula; Purvis, June

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Produktbeschreibung

A collection of essays that present the best of feminist scholarship on the suffrage movement, illustrating its complexity. It includes major studies of the fascinating, but neglected groups that participated in the campaign: the Women's Franchise League; the Women's Freedom League; the Women's Tax Resistance League and the United Suffragists.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Mai 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 384g
• ISBN-13: 9780719080456
• ISBN-10: 0719080452
• Artikelnr.: 26247274

Autorenporträt

Maroula Joannou is Senior Lecturer in English at Anglia Ruskin University. June Purvis is Professor of Women's & Gender History at Portsmouth University and Editor of Women's History Review

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Writing of the Women's Suffrage Movement: A 'Coming of
Age' 1. 'Now you see it, now you don't': The Women's Franchise League and
its place in contending narratives of the women's suffrage movement 2. A
truly national movement: the view from outside London 3. Meanings of
militancy: the ideas and practice of political resistance in the Women's
Freedom League, 1907-1914 4. Pay the piper, call the tune: the Women's Tax
Resistance League 5. 'A party between revolution and peaceful persuasion':
the United Suffragists 6. Six Photographs 7. Suffragette fiction and the
fictions of suffrage 8. Suffrage and poetry: radical women's voices 9.
Women's suffrage drama 10. 'A better world for both' - men, cultural
transformation, the stage, and the Suffragettes 11. Christabel Pankhurst
and the Women's Social and Political Union 12. 'No surrender!': the
militancy of Mary Leigh, a working-class suffragette 13. Suffrage, sex and
science 14. The old faith living and the old power there: the movement to
extend women's suffrage 15. British suffrage repositories