The British women's suffrage campaign : national and international perspectives / edited by June Purvis and June Hannam.
"This book brings together twelve chapters from feminist historians from around the world to offer new perspectives on aspects of the campaign for women's suffrage in Britain. It signals how the women's suffrage campaign in Britain embraced both national and global aspects. Chapters d...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
Routledge,
2021.
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| Series: | Women's and gender history.
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| Summary: | "This book brings together twelve chapters from feminist historians from around the world to offer new perspectives on aspects of the campaign for women's suffrage in Britain. It signals how the women's suffrage campaign in Britain embraced both national and global aspects. Chapters deal with issues around strategies, social class, employment, religion, nationalism, empire and race and explore complex issues about women's roles in campaigning for their democratic right to the parliamentary vote. Offering a broad view of the British women's suffrage movement, this is the ideal volume for students of women's and political history in both its national and international contexts"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781000319897 100031989X 9781003023296 1003023290 9781000319934 1000319938 9781000319910 1000319911 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 22, 2020) |
| Biographical or Historical Data: | June Purvis is Professor (Emerita) of Women'sand Gender History at the University of Portsmouth, UK.She has published extensively on the suffragette movement in Edwardian Britain, including Emmeline Pankhurst: A Biography (2002) and Christabel Pankhurst: A Biography (2018).She is the founding and managing editor of the journal Women's History Review, and also the editor for the Women'sand Gender Historybook series with Routledge, and is currently Treasurer of the International Federation for Research in Women's History. June Hannam is Professor (Emerita) of History at the University of West of England Bristol, UK. She has published extensively on women and socialism/the labour movement, and women's suffrage.Her many publications include Isabella Ford (1989), International Encyclopedia of Women's Suffrage, co-edited with Mitzi Aucherlonie and Katherine Holden (2000), Socialist Women: Britain, 1880s to 1920s¸ co-written with Karen Hunt (2002) as well as numerous chapters in edited books. |