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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792779503321

Autore

Smith Angela K.

Titolo

Suffrage discourse in Britain during the First World War / / Angela K. Smith

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-315-24208-7

1-351-89698-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (162 pages)

Disciplina

324.623094109041

Soggetti

Women - Suffrage - Great Britain - History - 20th century

World War, 1914-1918 - Women - Great Britain

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2005 by Ashgate Publishing.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Writing suffrage before 1914 -- 2. Patriotic suffragism : Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst and the WSPU -- 3. A different view : Sylvia Pankhurst and the East End -- 4. The Pacifist voice -- 5. Suffragists and war work -- 6. 'That silly suffrage' : the paradox of the First World War -- 7. 'The empowering of individuals' : feminism, art and war in The egoist -- 8. Winning the peace.