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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828007103321

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

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

xiii, 297 p. : ill

Collana

Women's and gender history

Altri autori (Persone)

PurvisJune

HoltonSandra Stanley

Disciplina

324.6/23/0941

Soggetti

Women - Suffrage - Great Britain - History

Suffragists - Great Britain - History

Women's rights - Great Britain - History

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.

Sommario/riassunto

Votes for Women provides an innovative re-examination of the suffrage movement, presenting new perspectives which challenge the existing literature on this subject. This fascinating book charts the history of the movement in Britain from the nineteenth century to the postwar period, assessing important figures such as; * Emmeline Pankhurst and the militant wing * Millicent Garrett Fawcett, leader of the constitutional wing *Jennie Baines and her link with the international suffrage movements.