The British Women's Suffrage Campaign

ISBN-13: 9780367902414 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 246 str.

June Purvis; June Hannam

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Introduction

June Purvis and June Hannam

1. Millicent Fawcett (1847–1929): the making of a politician

Elizabeth Crawford

2. Emmeline Pankhurst (1858–1928): the making of a militant

June Purvis

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  

Maureen Wright

4. Isabella Ford (1855–1924) and women’s suffrage

June Hannam

5. Suffragette palace: Sophia Duleep Singh (1876–1948), Hampton Court Palace and votes for women

Elizabeth Baker

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

Lesley Spiers

7. The wrong kind of working-class woman?  Domestic servants in the British suffrage movement

Laura Schwartz

8. Class and adult suffrage in Britain during the Great War

Karen Hunt

9. A colonial for the cause: Lady Stout (1858–1931), suffrage and New Zealand as exemplar to the Empire, 1909–1914

Monica Webb

10. Narratives of democracy, the emotions of politics and memories of militant suffragism: Britain, Ireland, the USA and Australia

Sharon Crozier-De Rosa

11. Covering the suffragettes: Austrian newspapers reporting on militant women’s rights activism in the United Kingdom

Johanna Gehmacher

12. The influence of the British women’s suffrage movement upon the emergence and development of the Japanese women’s movement

Hiroko Tomida