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The Militant Suffrage Movement

By Mayhall, Laura E. Nym

The Militant Suffrage Movement Film, Art & Culture

The Militant Suffrage Movement

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The image of upper-class women chaining themselves to the rails of 10 Downing Street, smashing windows of public buildings, and going on hunger strikes in the cause of "votes for women" have become visually synonomous with the British suffragette movement over the past century. Their story has become lore among feminists, in effect separating women's fight for voting rights from contemporary issues in British political history and disconnecting their militancy from other forms of political militancy in Britain in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Mayhall examines the strategies that suffragettes employed to challenge the definitions of citizenship in Britain. She examines the resistance origins within liberal political tradition, its emergence during Britain's involvement in the South African War, and its enactment as spectacle. Enlarging the study of the militant campaign for suffrage, Mayhall analyzes not only its implications for the social history of gender but also, and more importantly, its connections to British political and intellectual history. This book is already being touted as a critical revisionist work in the history of suffrage in Britain.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
236
Release Date:
2003-11-06
Publication Date:
2003-11-01
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0195159934
ISBN13:
9780195159936
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
540 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
19 cm
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