The March of the Women

A Revisionist Analysis of the Campaign for Women's Suffrage, 1866-1914
Erscheinungsjahr 2000
ISBN: 978-0-19-820775-7
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 316 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 646 g

This book is the first comprehensive analysis of the campaign for women's suffrage to appear for over thirty years. It challenges the conventional chronology of the subject by arguing that the Victorian suffragists did not undergo a decline during the 1890s but, on the contrary, had effectively won the argument about votes for women by 1900. This view is supported by evidence of the ineffectiveness of Anti-Suffragism, and especially the difficulties it encountered in trying to reconcile female Antis, who were often feminists, with male Antis, who opposed all forms of emancipation. The author adds a new dimension to the argument by discussing the beneficial impact on the British campaign of women's enfranchisement in New Zealand in 1893, and in Australia in 1902; and he shows how crucial to the shift towards suffragist support in parliament were Conservative moves in favour of suffragism in the 1890s.

The March of the Women also offers a fresh evaluation of the Edwardian militant campaign. At grass roots level divisions over tactics mattered less than among the London leadership, and suffragette groups were less rigidly divided. It places the Pankhursts and the WSPU in a fresh light by examining their success in raising funds and in tapping the support of the British Establishment, at the same time attacking it and its values; while at the other end of the spectrum non-militants were making an important contribution to the cause by capitalising on working-class and Labour support for women's suffrage.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pugh, Martin

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Wahlen und Volksabstimmungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Preface

- Part I

- 1: The Tactical Dilemmas

- 2: The Debate

- Part II

- 3: Decline or Revival? Womens Suffrage in the 1890s

- 4: The Impact of International Developments on Women's Suffrage

- 5: Conservatism: the Unexpected Ally

- 6: Liberalism: the Unexpected Enemy

- 7: The Failure of Anti-Suffragism

- Part III

- 8: The Anatomy of Militancy

- 9: Women's Suffrage and Public Opinion

- 10: The Revival of Non-Militant Suffragism 1912-1914

- Epilogue: War and the Vote

- Index