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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mayhall, Laura E. Nym, 1963- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Suffrage--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Women.

Women--Suffrage--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Citizenship--Great Britain.

Citizenship.

Government, Resistance to--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Government, Resistance to.

Government, Resistance to--Great Britain--History--20th century.

South African War, 1899-1902.

Great Britain--Politics and government--1837-1901.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--Politics and government--1901-1936.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (233 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The image of upper-class women chaining themselves to the rails of 10 Downing Street and going on hunger strike has become synonymous with the British suffragette movement. Mayhall examines the strategies that suffragettes employed to challenge the definitions of citizenship in Britain.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2003.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-208) and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-771465-X

0-19-028948-1

1-280-50306-8

0-19-534783-8

1-60256-963-0

OCLC:

171573375