The Routledge Companion to British Women's Suffrage.

Author
Cowman, Krista [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
1st ed.
Published/​Created
  • Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2024.
  • ©2024.
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1 online resource (753 pages)

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Series
Routledge Companions Series [More in this series]
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The Routledge Companion to British Women's Suffrage provides a comprehensive survey of state-of-the-art contemporary scholarship on women's suffrage, and is an essential handbook for those studying the history, sociology, and politics of the movement.
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Contents
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Table of Contents
  • List of Contributors
  • Introduction: What Was Different About the British Suffrage Campaign?
  • Notes
  • Part 1 Approaches to the Study of British Women's Suffrage
  • Part 1: Introduction
  • Chapter 1 Locating the Suffrage Movement in Edwardian Politics
  • Party Responses to the Suffrage Campaign
  • Militancy and Militancies
  • Chapter 2 Looking at British Suffrage From Abroad
  • Introduction
  • Women's Suffrage in the New Public Sphere
  • Suffrage Under Coverture
  • Principle, Prejudice and Strategy
  • Suffrage and Suffragism
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 3 Post-Colonial Suffrage Histories Race and Empire in the British Suffrage Movement
  • Discourses of Race and Empire in the British Suffrage Movement
  • Women of Colour in the British Suffrage Movement
  • British Suffrage and Imperial Networks
  • Racial Inclusion in Suffrage Commemoration
  • Chapter 4 Life Writing and British Women's Suffrage
  • Life Writing and Women's History
  • The Personal Was Political: Activists' Suffrage Histories
  • Suffrage Autobiographies
  • Biographers Engagement With Suffrage
  • Collective Biography
  • Combined Life Writing
  • Chapter 5 Local Dimensions to Women's Suffrage in Britain
  • Chapter 6 Social Network Analysis Mapping Suffragettes' Political Journeys
  • Social Networks, Social Movements, and Suffrage
  • Social Network Analysis
  • Mapping Suffragettes' Political Journeys
  • Constructing Suffragette Networks
  • Recruitment to Activism: WSPU Brokers
  • Levels of Participation: Network Structure and Composition
  • Exiting Activism: Ties That Constrain
  • Notes.
  • Chapter 7 'Revolutionary Potential?' The Role of Web Mapping and Other Web Technologies in the Study and Democratisation of British Suffrage Histories
  • 'Rethinking Our Allegiance to Print': Suffrage Maps, Methodologies and Digitisation
  • 'A More Dynamic Kind of History': Navigating Technologies, Suffrage Lives, and Participatory Archives
  • 'The Generation of New Feminist Knowledges': Mapping, Analysing and Preserving Suffrage Data
  • Part 2 The Material Cultures of the British Suffrage Movement
  • Part 2: Introduction
  • Chapter 8 Art and the Suffrage Campaigns
  • Chapter 9 Suffrage News and Print Media
  • Making Media of Their Own: Mapping the Suffrage Press
  • Pressing the Cause: Production and Distribution
  • Suffrage and Mainstream Media
  • Media, Culture and Materiality
  • Beyond the Press: Suffrage Media Forms and Ephemera
  • Conclusion: Re-Mediating Suffrage in the Twenty-First Century
  • Chapter 10 Purple, White and Green Selling Militant Women's Suffrage
  • Women's Sunday
  • Suffrage Shops
  • The Women's Exhibition
  • The Woman's Press
  • Chapter 11 Keeping Alive the Suffragette Spirit Curating, Collecting and Displaying Suffrage at the Museum of London
  • Collecting Suffrage
  • Displaying the Collection
  • Keeping Alive the Suffragette Spirit: Displaying Militancy
  • Keeping Alive the Suffragette Spirit: Expanding the Collection
  • Future Curation of the Collection
  • Chapter 12 Collecting Suffrage
  • Chapter 13 Suffrage Fiction
  • Chapter 14 Suffrage On the Edwardian Stage
  • Part 3 Organisations of the British Suffrage Movement
  • Part 3: Introduction
  • Chapter 15 Antecedents to the Women's Suffrage Campaigns
  • Chapter 16 'You Can't Kill the Spirit, It's Like a Mountain, Old and Strong, It Goes On and On': A Reassessment of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies: the View From Manchester
  • Background
  • Suffragists' Appeal to Working-Class Women
  • Membership
  • Local Organisation, Branches, and Network
  • Tactics to Win the Vote
  • Election Fighting Fund
  • The Outbreak of War, 1914
  • Wartime Suffrage Campaigns
  • Chapter 17 The Women's Social and Political Union
  • Chapter 18 The Women's Freedom League and Discourses of Feminism in Britain (1907-1914)
  • Chapter 19 Religious Suffrage Societies
  • Tactics
  • Campaigning Focus
  • Chapter 20 Women's Suffrage and Political Parties
  • Suffrage and the Liberal Party
  • The Conservative Party
  • The Labour Party
  • Chapter 21 Occupational Suffrage Societies
  • Processions and Professionals
  • The Artists Suffrage League and the Suffrage Atelier
  • The Actresses' Franchise League and the Women Writers' Suffrage League
  • Women Teachers' Franchise Union
  • The Civil Service Woman Suffrage Society and the Clerks' WSPU
  • Chapter 22 'A Chivalry That Includes and Surpasses Justice' Male Support for Women's Suffrage in Edwardian Britain
  • Part 4 Legacies of the British Suffrage Movement
  • Part 4: Introduction
  • Chapter 23 Suffrage During the First World War
  • Chapter 24 Taking a View On Suffrage Militancy
  • Historians On Militancy
  • Militants On Militancy
  • Reflecting On Militancy
  • Chapter 25 What Difference Did the Vote Make?: Suffrage in Parliament, 1919-28: the Representation of the People Act, 1918
  • Women and Elections
  • Women Voters
  • Women in Parliament
  • Extra-parliamentary Activism.
  • Women and Party Politics
  • Reforms
  • The Equal Franchise
  • Chapter 26 International Connections in the British Women's Suffrage Movement
  • Sharing Suffrage News
  • Australian Voters in the British Campaign
  • US and British Connections
  • Transnational Suffrage in the First World War and Beyond
  • Chapter 27 Suffrage Centenaries
  • The International Context
  • The UK Context
  • Centenaries of Suffragette Activism Before 2018
  • Suffrage Centenary 2018
  • Parliament's Project: Vote 100
  • Votail 100
  • UK and Devolved Government
  • Academia and Beyond
  • Contemporary Activism
  • The Dominance of Militancy
  • Across the Militant Spectrum: Five Case Studies
  • 1 Votes for Women: The Museum of London
  • 2 Suffragettes Vs. the State: The National Archives
  • 3 Represent! People's History Museum, Manchester
  • 4 At Last! The Women's Library at the London School of Economics
  • 5 Voice and Vote: Women's Place in Parliament
  • The Case Studies: Overall
  • Chapter 28 Suffragette Revisited An Interview With Sarah Gavron
  • Index.
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9781351365710 ((electronic bk.))
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