The Women's Suffrage Movement in Britain and Ireland: A Regional Survey

ISBN-13: 9780415383325 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 300 str.

Elizabeth Crawford

Opis

In this comprehensive study, Elizabeth Crawford provides the first survey of women's suffrage campaigns across the British Isles and Ireland, focusing on local campaigns and activists. Through a study of the grass roots activists involved in the movement, Crawford provides a counter to studies that have focused on the politics and personalities that dominated at a national level, and reveals that, far from providing merely passive backing to the cause, women in the regions were engaged in the movement as active participants. Attempts to involve women of all classes at a local level were highly successful, and uniquely, Crawford also shows the extent of male support across the provinces. Such support was fundamental to the success of the suffrage movement.

Recenzje

'One cannot fail to admire Crawford's encyclopaedic knowledge of the British Suffrage Movement.' - Women's History Magazine

Spis treści

England  Northwest  Northeast  Yorkshire  East Midlands  East Anglia  Central  West Midlands  Southwest  Wessex  Southeast  Wales  Scotland  Ireland 

O autorze

Elizabeth Crawford is an independent researcher and the owner of 'Woman and Her Sphere', a business specialising in seling antiquarian books, pamphlets, postcards and ephemera by and about women.  She is author of The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866-1928  (2001) and Enterprising Women: The Garretts and Their Circle (2002).