Buch, Englisch, 344 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 524 g
The Militant Campaign of the Women's Social and Political Union, 1903-1914
Buch, Englisch, 344 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 524 g
Reihe: Routledge Library Editions: Women's History
ISBN: 978-1-138-00811-3
Verlag: Routledge
The suffragette movement shattered the domestic tranquillity of Edwardian England. This book is an original and searching study of the formidable organization which led this campaign: the Women’s Social and Political Union.
With the use of previously unpublished correspondence of Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst, her colleagues and such political leaders as Asquith, Balfour and Lloyd George, the author views the development of ever more extreme and violent forms of militancy not as a series of amusing exploits and incidents but as the carefully calculated political strategy the suffragettes intended it to be. He examines the reasons for the remarkable effectiveness of militant tactics in making women’s enfranchisement a political issue of central importance, and shows why militancy failed to secure this right prior to the outbreak of war in August 1914. He assesses, too, the influence of the vast social and political changes wrought by the war on the ultimate success of the campaign in 1918.
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- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politische Propaganda & Kampagnen, Politik & Medien
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Introduction 1. Antecedents 2. Enter the Pankhursts 3. The Founding of the WSPU 4. Militancy Begins 5. To London 6. Rapid Growth 7. The Split 8. To Hyde Park! 9. Frustration Mounts 10. Violence Begins 11. The Truce 12. The Truce Renewed 13. Violence, Flight, and Divided Counsels 14. The Pethick-Lawrences Depart 15. Bromley and Bow, and its Aftermath 16. The Arson Campaign 17. The Great Scourge 18. The Arson Campaign, Continued 19. The End of the Militant Campaign 20. Epilogue: The Vote, and After
