Suffrage Outside Suffragism
Britain 1880-1914
Publication | Table des matières | Critiques
Résumé
This collection of essays systematically explores how a sample of political groupings not founded on suffrage reacted and accommodated the issue of suffrage within their official discourses and structures. The volume leads to the heart and core of suffragism while examining the dynamics and versatilities of the Edwardian political fabric.
Table des matières
Introduction
Boussahba-Bravard, Myriam
Women in the Labour Party and Women’s Suffrage
Thane, Pat
The Conservative Party and Women’s Suffrage
Maguire, Lori
Gender, Suffrage and Party: Liberal Women’s Organisations, 1880–1914
Walker, Linda
The National Union of Women Workers and Women’s Suffrage
Bush, Julia
The Women’s Co-operative Guild and Suffrage<
Scott, Gillian
‘To make the world a better place’: Socialist Women and Women’s Suffrage in Bristol, 1910–1920
Hannam, June
The Primrose League and Women’s Suffrage, 1883–1918
Vervaecke, Philippe
Unionised Women Teachers and Women’s Suffrage
Trouvé-Finding, Susan
Avant-garde Women and Women’s Suffrage
Delap, Lucy
Critiques
- ‘This is a book that confirms the history of suffrage as a dynamic and challenging field of enquiry which merits attention from all historians of modern British politics. It broadens and deepens our knowledge and appreciation of suffrage activism, highlighting the spectrum of support for female suffrage across and through political and non-political organisations. Suffrage Outside Suffragism brings together a distinguished group of scholars to cast a searching light over the history of suffrage activism and provide a fillip to historians of women, feminism, and politics. It pushes the boundaries of suffrage history, demonstrating how suffrage activity pervaded the politics and culture of Edwardian Britain beyond the suffrage societies themselves’
– Professor Lynn Abrams, University of Glasgow - “This important volume from an authoritative international team of authors sheds significant new light on the comparative development of post-war Conservatism in the western world.”
– Stuart Ball, Professor Emeritus, University of Leicester, UK - “The rich essays collected in this illuminating volume show that the rise of right-wing politics in the United Kingdom, the United States, and France since the 1970s was a remarkably transnational phenomenon. As they attacked social democracy and cultural pluralism, right-wing movements borrowed ideas, visions, vocabularies, and tactics from each other, adapting them to their own national idioms and using advances in one country to win advances elsewhere. Anyone interested in confronting the problems that have proliferated in the wake the right’s reconfiguration of politics – surging inequality, belligerent ethno-nationalism, worker disempowerment and insecurity, and lost faith in the capacity for democratic self-government – has much to learn about the origins of these problems from this important book.”
– Joseph A. McCartin, Georgetown University, USA, author of Collision Course