The British Women's Suffrage Campaign (eBook, PDF)

National and International Perspectives
Redaktion: Purvis, June; Hannam, June

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book brings together twelve chapters from feminist historians from around the world to offer new perspectives on aspects of the campaign for women's suffrage in Britain. It is the ideal volume for students of women's and political history in both its national and international contexts.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000319897
• Artikelnr.: 60713229

Autorenporträt

June Purvis is Professor (Emerita) of Women's and Gender History at the University of Portsmouth, UK. She has published extensively on the suffragette movement in Edwardian Britain, including Emmeline Pankhurst: A Biography (2002) and Christabel Pankhurst: A Biography (2018). She is the founding and managing editor of the journal Women's History Review, and also the editor for the Women's and Gender History book series with Routledge, and is currently Treasurer of the International Federation for Research in Women's History. June Hannam is Professor (Emerita) of History at the University of West of England Bristol, UK. She has published extensively on women and socialism/the labour movement, and women's suffrage. Her many publications include Isabella Ford (1989), International Encyclopedia of Women's Suffrage, co-edited with Mitzi Aucherlonie and Katherine Holden (2000), Socialist Women: Britain, 1880s to 1920s¿ co-written with Karen Hunt (2002) as well as numerous chapters in edited books.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Millicent Fawcett (1847-1929): the making of a politician
2. Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928): the making of a militant 3. 'A
particularly interesting kind of "heroine" to have': marriage, motherhood
and votes for women in the archives of Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy
(1833-1918), feminist, rebel and radical 4. Isabella Ford (1855-1924) and
women's suffrage 5. Suffragette palace: Sophia Duleep Singh (1876-1948),
Hampton Court Palace and votes for women 6. 'Being militant in her own
way': using the individual life of Lady Isabel Margesson (1863-1946) as a
prism to explore complex suffrage histories 7. The wrong kind of
working-class woman? Domestic servants in the British suffrage movement 8.
Class and adult suffrage in Britain during the Great War 9. A colonial for
the cause: Lady Stout (1858-1931), suffrage and New Zealand as exemplar to
the empire, 1909-1914 10. Narratives of democracy, the emotions of politics
and memories of militant suffragism: Britain, Ireland, the USA and
Australia 11. Covering the suffragettes: Austrian newspapers reporting on
militant women's rights activism in the United Kingdom 12. The influence of
the British women's suffrage movement upon the emergence and development of
the Japanese women's movement