Politics of Women's Suffrage : Local, National and International Dimensions / edited by Alexandra Hughes-Johnson and Lyndsey Jenkins.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hughes-Johnson, Alexandra, editor.

Jenkins, Lyndsey, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Suffrage--History.

Women.

Women--Political activity--History.

Women--Suffrage--Great Britain--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxiii, 387 pages)

Place of Publication:

London : University of London Press, 2021.

Summary:

From 1832 to the present day, from the countryside in Wales to the Comintern in Moscow, from America to Finland and Ireland to Australia, from the girls' school to the stage, women's suffrage was the most significant challenge to the constitution since 1832, seeking not only to settle demands for inclusion and justice but to expand and redefine definitions of citizenship. This collection advances ongoing debates within suffrage history whilst also drawing on a range of new sources, different intellectual techniques and methodological approaches, which challenge established interpretations. With its focus on politics and political activism in its broadest sense, this collection makes a timely and substantial contribution to understanding the meaning of politics and political activism across the UK (and indeed, across the world) in this period, particularly as defined and experienced by women at the grassroots. This collection is a reminder of the ways in which women have often encountered and battled a hostile political climate, but pushed forward with determination, skill, tenacity and optimism: resonating with the renewed interest in women's history and feminist politics today.

Contents:

The 'success of every great movement had been largely due to the free and continuous exercise of the right to petition' : Irish suffrage petitioners and parliamentarians in the nineteenth century / Jennifer Redmond

Singing "The Red Flag' for suffrage : class, feminism and local politics in the Canning Town branch of the Women's Social and Political Union, 1906-7 / Lyndsey Jenkins

Suffrage organizers, grassroots activism and the campaign in Wales / Beth Jenkins

Suffrage, infant welfare and women's politics in Walsall, 1910-39 / Anna Muggeridge

'Keep your eyes on us because there is no more napping' : the wartime suffrage campaigns of the Suffragettes of the WSPU and the Independent WSPU / Alexandra Hughes-Johnson

English girls' schools and women's suffrage / Helen Sunderland

'A mistake to raise any controversial question at the present time' : the careful relationship of Glasgow's suffragists with the press, 1902-18 / Sarah Pedersen

'The weakest link' : suffrage writing, class interests and the isolated women of leisure / Sos Eltis

Militancy in the marital sphere : sex strikes, marriage strikes and birth strikes as militant suffrage tactics, 1911-14 / Tania Shew

'East Side Londoners' : Sylvia Pankhurst's lecture tours of North America and the East London Federation of Suffragettes / Katherine Connelly

Suffrage internationalism in practice : Dora Montefiore and the lessons of Finnish women's enfranchisement / Karen Hunt

Emotions and empire in suffrage and anti-suffrage politics : Britain, Ireland and Australia in the early twentieth century / Sharon Crozier-De Rosa

From Votes for Women to world revolution : British and Irish suffragettes and international communism, 1919-39 / Maurice J. Casey

Afterword : a tale of two centennials : suffrage, suffragettes and the limits of political participation in Britain and America / Nicoletta F. Gullace.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.