Controversies in the History of British Feminism

ISBN-13: 9780415118736 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 2955 str.

Marie M. Roberts; Tamae Mizuta

Opis

Following on from Sources and Perspectives in the History of British Feminism, Controversies in the History of British Feminism is the third set of 6 volumes which looks at controversial aspects of the women's movement. Feminism has always been characterized by ideological dispute and conflict over strategy in the struggle for equality, and controversies have focused mainly on the means rather than the ends involved in the achievment of the movement's specific goals. On the issue of the fight for the vote the controversies were clearly visible. The conflicts within the women's suffrage movement eventually led to the split between the suffragettes, who supported militancy, and those who opposed it. Not surprisingly, the historical record has been shaped by the political persuasions of a particular narrator. For example, the story of the Women's Social and Political Union told by Christabel Pankhurst in Unshackled in Volume 6 differs in points of emphasis from the version narrated by her sister, Sylvia Pankhurst in The Suffragette Movement.

Recenzje

'This set of reprints of key texts in the history of feminism is exceedingly welcome..the introductions to each volume are helpful in providing links between texts, background events, and notes on further reading, while at the same time leaving the material to make its own impact. Volumes such as these make available primary materials invaluable to the researcher under constraints of time and money.' - Mary Waldron, Women's Writing