Arianne Chernock

Right to Rule and the Rights of Women (eBook, ePUB)

Queen Victoria and the Women's Movement

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Queen Victoria is often cast as a foe of the women's movement - the sovereign who famously declared women's rights to be a 'mad, wicked folly'. Yet these words weren't circulated publicly until after the Queen's death in 1901. Beginning with this insight, this book reveals Victoria as a ruler who captured the imaginations of nineteenth-century feminists. Women's rights activists routinely used Victoria to assert their own claims to citizenship. So popular was their strategy that it even motivated anti-suffragists to launch their own campaign to distance Queen Victoria from feminist initiatives. In highlighting these exchanges, this book draws attention to the intricate and often overlooked connections between the histories of women, the monarchy, and the state. In the process, it sheds light on the development of constitutional monarchy, concepts of female leadership, and the powerful role that the Crown - and queens specifically - have played in modern British culture and politics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. August 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108604369
• Artikelnr.: 62736011

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.