Suffrage Outside Suffragism: Britain 1880-1914

by M. Boussahba-Bravard (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349544912
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/2007
Edition description:	1st ed. 2007
Pages:	262
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

MYRIAM BOUSSAHBA-BRAVARD Maître de conférences in British Studies, University of Rouen, France JULIA BUSH Senior Lecturer in History, University of Northampton, Northampton, UK LUCY DELAP Research Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and the History Faculty, University of Cambridge, UK JUNE HANNAM Professor and Associate Dean, Humanities, Languages and Social Science Faculty, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK LORI MAGUIRE Professor of British Studies at the University of Paris VIII, France GILLIAN SCOTT Principal Lecturer in the School of Historical and Critical Studies at the University of Brighton, UK PAT THANE Professor of Contemporary British History, Institute of Historical Research, University of London, UK SUSAN TROUVÉ-FINDING Maître de conférences in British Studies, University of Poitiers, France PHILOPPE VERVAECKE Maître de conférences in British studies, University of Lille III, France LINDA WALKER Research Fellow in the School of Nursing, University of Manchester, UK

Table of Contents

Introduction; M.Boussahba-Bravard PART 1: PROTECTING THE CENTRE: NATIONAL PARTIES AND THE CONTROL OF WOMEN Women in the Labour Party and Women's Suffrage; P.Thane The Conservative Party and Women's Suffrage; L.Maguire Gender, Suffrage and Party: Liberal Women's Organisations 1880-1914; L.Walker PART 2: IN THE HUB OF THINGS: LOCAL ACTIVISM AND SEXUAL POLITICS The National Union of Women Workers and Women's Suffrage; J.Bush The Women's Cooperative Guild and Women's Suffrage; G.Scott 'To make the world a better place': Women's Suffrage and Socialism in Bristol; J.Hannam The Primrose League and Women's Suffrage, 1883-1918; P.Vervaecke PART 3: BEYOND THE STRUCTURE Unionized Women Teachers and Women's Suffrage; S.Trouvé-Finding Avant-garde Women and Women's Suffrage; L.Delap

Editorial Reviews

'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

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