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Votes for Women

  • Published: 16 Dec 1999
  • DOI: 10.4324/9780203006443
  • Print ISBN: 9780415214582
  • eBook ISBN: 9780203006443

The women’s suffrage movement is central to any study of gender and political history. Votes for Women provides an innovative and unrivalled re-examination of the movement, presenting new perspectives and dimensions which challenge 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 and Millicent Garrett Fawcett, leader of the constitutional wing. The stories of forgotten women, such as Lily Maxwell and Lady Constance Lytton are told as well as Jennie Baines’s link with international suffrage movements. In addition, there are reappraisals of the ideas of British suffragism; of campaigns of women teachers; of the neglected Women’s Freedom League; of interwar activity, and of life away from the metropolis. An illuminating first chapter, which reviews the way that suffrage accounts have been written, illustrates how women’s history remains contested ground. Votes for Women examines the importance of the suffrage movement to women’s general emancipation in the twentieth century, and discusses its role as catalyst to women’s social and political equality.

Contents

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    Front Matter
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    Introduction: The campaigns for votes for women By June Purvis; Sandra Stanley Holton
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    The Making of Suffrage History By Sandra Stanley Holton
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    The Ideas of British Suffragism By Christine Bolt
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    Who Was Lily Maxwell?: Women’s suffrage and Manchester politics, 1866–1867 By Jane Rendall
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    Mrs Henry Fawcett (1847–1929): The widow as a problem in feminist biography By Janet Howarth
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    Emmeline Pankhurst (1858–1928) and Votes for Women By June Purvis
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    ‘Deeds, Not Words’: Daily life in the Women’s Social and Political Union in Edwardian Britain 1 By June Purvis
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    Militancy, Masochism or Martyrdom?: The public and private prisons of Constance Lytton By Marie Mulvey-Roberts
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    ‘Dare to be Free!’: The Women’s Freedom League and its legacy By Hilary Frances
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    Women Teachers and the Suffrage Campaign: Arguments for professional equality By Alison Oram
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    ‘I Had Not Been to London’: Women’s suffrage – a view from the regions By June Hannam
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    Jennie Baines: Suffrage and an Australian connection By Judith Smart
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    ‘A Symbol and a Key’: The suffrage movement in Britain, 1918–1928 By Johanna Alberti
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    Back Matter