A suffrage reader : charting directions in British suffrage history

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A suffrage reader : charting directions in British suffrage history

edited by Claire Eustance, Joan Ryan and Laura Ugolini

Leicester University Press, 2000

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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ISBN 9780718501778

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.

Table of Contents

  • 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.
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: pbk ISBN 9780718501785

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.

Table of Contents

  • 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.

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