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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454961603321

Titolo

Votes for women / / edited by June Purvis and Sandra Stanley Holton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2000

ISBN

0-521-31044-X

1-134-61065-3

1-134-61064-5

1-280-06668-7

9780203171829

0-203-00644-5

0-203-17182-9

Descrizione fisica

xiii, 297 p. : ill

Collana

Women's and gender history

Altri autori (Persone)

HoltonSandra Stanley

PurvisJune

Disciplina

324.6/23/0941

Soggetti

Women - Suffrage - Great Britain - History

Suffragists - Great Britain - History

Women's rights - Great Britain - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

A collection of 12 research papers by British and Australian women scholars.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. The making of suffrage history / Sandra Stanley Holton -- 2. The ideas of British suffragism / Christine Bolt -- 3. Who was Lily Maxwell? Women's suffrage and Manchester politics, 1866-1867 / Jane Rendall -- 4. Mrs Henry Fawcett (1847-1929) : the widow as a problem in feminist biography / Janet Howarth -- 5. Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928) and votes for women / June Purvis -- 6. 'Deeds, not words' : daily life in the Women's social and political union in Edwardian Britain / June Purvis -- 7. Militancy, masochism or martyrdom? The public private prisons of Constance Lytton / Marie Mulvey-Roberts -- 8. 'Dare to be free!' : the Women's freedom league and its legacy / Hilary Frances -- 9. Women teachers and the suffrage campaign : arguments for professional equality / Alison Oram -- 10. 'I had not been to



London' : women's suffrage : a view from the regions / June Hannam -- 11. Jennie Baines : suffrage and an Australian connection / Judith Smart -- 12. 'A symbol and a key' : the suffrage movement in Britain, 1918-1928 / Johanna Alberti.