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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813840203321

Autore

Mayhall Laura E. Nym <1963->

Titolo

The militant suffrage movement : citizenship and resistance in Britain, 1860-1930 / / Laura E. Nym Mayhall

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2003

©2003

ISBN

0-19-771465-X

0-19-028948-1

1-280-50306-8

0-19-534783-8

1-60256-963-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (233 p.)

Disciplina

324.6/2/0941

Soggetti

Women - Suffrage - Great Britain - History

Women's rights - Great Britain - History

Great Britain Politics and government 1837-1901

Great Britain Politics and government 1901-1936

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Abbreviations; Introduction: Rethinking Suffrage; 1 Gender, Citizenship, and the Liberal State, 1860-1899; 2 The South African War and After, 1899-1906; 3 Staging Exclusion, 1906-1909; 4 Resistance on Trial, 1906-1912; 5 Embodying Citizenship, 1908-1914; 6 The Ethics of Resistance, 1910-1914; 7 At War with and for the State, 1914 -1918; Conclusion: Fetishizing Militancy, 1918-1930; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This title examines the strategies that suffragettes employed to challenge the definitions of citizenship in Britain. It examines the resistance origins within liberal political tradition, its emergence during Britain's involvement in the South African War, and its enactment as spectacle.