A Suffrage Reader
Charting Directions in British Suffrage History
Published on 1. January 2000
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-0-7185-0178-5 (ISBN)
Description
This reader contains a mixture of new narratives on suffrage, together with reinterpretations of some long-established "truths" about the campaign by British women for the vote. Some chapters shift the focus from "the great and the good" based in London, and explore the issues which motivated supporters in other parts of Britain. Other chapters illuminate the lengths some men were prepared to go to see women become voters - and the lengths others were prepared to go to stop them. A variety of topics is covered by the contributors, who include both established scholars and writers relatively new to the field. "A Suffrage Reader" provides an opportunity to push back the boundaries of suffrage history, enabling us to think again about the diverse and sometimes contraditory motives for, and outcomes of, involvement in the long campaign by women for the vote in Britain. The book also makes it possible to pause and reflect upon recent developments in writing on suffrage history, and the extent to which this has been bound up with developing attitudes towards politics in the latter decades of the 20th century.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Illustrations
index
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
351 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7185-0178-5 (9780718501785)
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Persons
Claire Eustance is a co-editor of the journal Gender and History and an independent researcher. Joan Ryan is a principal lecturer in the School of Humanities at the University of Greenwich. Laura Ugolini is a research assistant in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Wolverhampton.
Content
Introduction: writing suffrage histories - the "British experience", Claire Eustance et al. Reflections on suffrage history, Sandra Stanley Holton; "crossing the great divide" - interorganizational suffrage relationships on Merseyside, 1895-1914, Krista Cowman; "suffragettes are splendid for any work" - the Blathwayt diaries as a source for suffrage history, June Hannam; teetotal feminists - temperance leadership and the campaign for women's suffrage, Margaret Barrow; "doing justice to the real girl" - the women writers' Suffrage League, Sowon S. Park; suffragette experience through the filter of fascism, Julie Gottlieb; "it is only justice to grant women's suffrage..." -Independent Labour Party Men and Women, Suffrage, 1893-1905, Laura Ugolini; between the cause and the courts - the curious case of Cecil Chapman, Angela V. John; journeying through suffrage - the politics of Dora Montefiore, Karen Hunt; suffrage autobiography - a study of Mary Richardson - suffragette, socialist and fascist, Hilda Kean; "what a lot there is still to do" - Stella Browne, (1880-1955) carrying the struggle ever onward, Lesley A. Hall.