The Non-Violent Militant

ISBN-13: 9780415256940 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 320 str.

Teresa Billington-Greig;Fitzgerald Ann; Carol McPhee

Opis

This volume collects together writings of Teresa Billington-Greig, suffragette, activist and political theorist. One of the first organizers for the Women's Social and Political Union, she was a founder-member of the Women's freedom League. She was also the first suffragette to be sent to Holloway Gaol. This volume provides insights into this exceptional woman's lifelong efforts in the women's movement.

Spis treści

Introduction: An Appreciation; Part 1 Part I The Genesis of a Feminist: Autobiographical Fragments; Chapter 1 My Mother; Chapter 2 My Childhood and Education; Chapter 3 My Loss of Religious Belief; Chapter 4 Running away from Home; Chapter 5 Study and Work in Manchester; Chapter 6 ‘SOCIAL AND POLITICAL AWAKENING’; Chapter 7 Mrs Pankhurst and the WSPU; Chapter 8 The Birth of the Women’s Freedom League; Part 2 Part II Theory in the Midst of Battle; Chapter 9 ‘The Militant Policy of Women Suffragists’*Manuscript signed ‘Teresa Billington, His Majesty’s Prison Holloway. Nov. 12. 06.’ Box 404, File 3, TBG Collection, Fawcett Library.; Chapter 10 ‘Woman’s Liberty and Man’s Fear’*Manuscript signed ‘Teresa Billington,’ pre-February 1907, Box 404, File 6, TBG Collection, Fawcett Library.; Chapter 11 ’The Woman with the Whip’*From Towards Woman’s Liberty (Letchworth, Herts: Garden City Press, n.d.); Chapter 12 ‘Socialism and Sex-Equality’*The New Age, June 20, 1907.; Part 3 Part III The Militant Suffrage Movement; Chapter 13 The Militant suffrage Movement*Frank Palmer, London, 1911.; Chapter 14 Chapter I PERSONAL FOREWORD; Chapter 15 THE GENESIS OF THE MOVEMENT; Chapter 16 THE CHOSEN GATEWAY; Chapter 17 AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT; Chapter 18 SUCCESS THAT BROUGHT DEFEAT; Chapter 19 THE FREEDOM LEAGUE FAILURE; Chapter 20 THE DOMINATION ESTABLISHED; Chapter 21 A CRITICISM OF MILITANCY; Chapter 22 HOSTAGES TO HURRY; Chapter 23 CLAIMS EXAMINED; Chapter 24 THE BROKEN TRUCE; Chapter 25 PARNELL THE PROTOTYPE; Chapter 26 LOOKING FORWARD; Part 4 Part IV Against the State; Chapter 27 ‘Feminism and Politics’*Contemporary Review, November 1911.; Chapter 28 ‘Women and Government’ *The Freewoman, December 21, 1911.; Chapter 29 ‘The Feminist Revolt: An Alternate Policy’*Typescript, Box 404, File 3, TBG Collection, Fawcett Library, n.d.; Part 5 Part V The Consumer in Revolt: Selections; Chapter 30 The Consumer in Revolt* Stephen Swift & Company Limited, London, c. 1912.; Chapter 31 Chapter I: AN ECONOMIC DIVORCE; Chapter 32 THE VICTIMISATION OF THE CONSUMER; Chapter 33 WOMAN, THE CONSUMER; Chapter 34 THE FAILURE OF THE LABOUR REVOLT; Chapter 35 PAST EFFORTS TO SECURE UNION; Chapter 36 THE WORK TO BE DONE;

O autorze

Carol McPhee, Ann Fitzgerald