Liddington Vanishing for the vote

Suffrage, citizenship and the battle for the census
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-84779-894-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 424 Seiten

Investigates the boycott of the 1911 census by Suffragettes

Autoren/Hrsg.

Liddington, Jill

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART ONE: Prelude – people and their politics
1. Charlotte Despard and John Burns, the Colossus of Battersea
2. Muriel Matters goes vanning it with Asquith: campaigning cross country
3. Propaganda culture: Clemence and Laurence Housman
4. Parallel politics: Lloyd George plus Midlands suffragettes
PART TWO: Narrative – October 1909 to April 1911
5. Plotting across central London: census and tax resistance
6. The battle for John Burns’ Battersea revisited
7. The Census Bill and suffragette boycott plan
8. Lloyd George goes a-wooing vs Burns’ ‘Vixens in Velvet’
9. The King’s Speech: Jessie Stephenson parachutes into Manchester
10. Battleground for democracy: census versus women’s citizenship
PART THREE: Census night – places and spaces
11. Emily Wilding Davison’s Westminster – and beyond
12. The Nevinsons’ Hampstead – and central London entertainments
13. Laurence Housman’s Kensingon, with Clemence in Dorset
14. Annie Kenney’s Bristol and Mary Blathwayt’s Bath
15. Jessie Stephenson's Manchester, Hannah Mitchell’s Oldham Road
16. English journey: sweeping back down from Teesside to Thames
PART FOUR: The Census and beyond
17. After census night: Clemence’s resistance, Asquith’s betrayal
18. Telling the story: suffrage and census historiographies
19. Sources and their analysis: Vanishing for the Vote?
GAZETTEER OF CAMPAIGNERS jointly compiled with Elizabeth Crawford.
Select bibliography
References: endnotes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Liddington Jill:
Jill Liddington is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of LeedsJill Liddington is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Leeds