The Militant Suffragette Movement in York
Author : Krista Cowman
Publisher : Borthwick Publications
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 32,15 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Suffragists
ISBN : 9781904497219
Author : Krista Cowman
Publisher : Borthwick Publications
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 32,15 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Suffragists
ISBN : 9781904497219
Author : Laura E. Nym Mayhall
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 38,49 MB
Release : 2003-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195347838
The image of middle-class women chaining themselves to the rails of 10 Downing Street, smashing windows of public buildings, and going on hunger strikes in the cause of "votes for women" have become visually synonymous with the British suffragette movement over the past century. Their story has become a defining moment in feminist history, in effect separating women's fight for voting rights from contemporary issues in British political history and disconnecting their militancy from other forms of political activism in Britain in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Drawing upon private papers, pamphlets, newspapers, and the records of a range of suffrage and political organizations, Laura E. Nym Mayhall examines militancy as both a political idea and a set of practices that suffragettes employed to challenge their exclusion from the political nation. She traces the development of the suffragettes' concept of resistance from its origins within radical liberal discourse in the 1860s, to its emergence as political practice during Britain's involvement in the South African War, its reliance on dramatic spectacle by suffragette organizations, and its memorialization following enfranchisement. She reads closely the language and tactics militants used, analyzing their challenges in the courtroom, on the street, and through legislation as reasoned actions of female citizens. The differences in strategy among militants are highlighted, not just in the use of violence, but also in their acceptance and rejection of the authority of the law and their definitions of the ideal relationship between individuals and the state. Variations in the nature of protest continued even during World War I, when most suffragettes suspended their activities to serve the nation's war effort, while others joined peace movements, opposed the state's reduction of civil liberties in wartime, and continued the struggle for suffrage. Mayhall's revealing account of the militant suffrage movement sheds new light upon the social history of gender but, more importantly, it connects this movement to the political and intellectual history of Britain. Not only did militancy play an essential role in the achievement of women's political rights but it also contributed to the practice of engaged citizenship and the growth of liberal democracy.
Author : Estelle Sylvia Pankhurst
Publisher :
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 15,62 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Suffrage
ISBN :
Author : E. Sylvia Pankhurst
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 13,5 MB
Release : 2019
Category :
ISBN : 9780243721733
Author : Estelle Sylvia Pankhurst
Publisher :
Page : 629 pages
File Size : 41,82 MB
Release : 1932
Category : Women
ISBN :
Author : Antonia Raeburn
Publisher : Michael Joseph
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 24,44 MB
Release : 1973
Category : History
ISBN :
"The book is filled with stories of feats of endurance, ruses, escapes and disguises - amusing, touching, and sometimes horrifying. The Suffragettes in Britain tried peaceable methods and were eventually driven to extremes of behavior totally alien to their upbringing and previous life. They were caught up in battles with policemen and reduced to to fighting sadistic doctors and wardresses in prison, who tried to feed them through tubes. when the fight was on, class barriers ceased to exist; led by the Pankhursts, mill girls and ladies of high rank worked equally together. A study of the activities of the militants, using, among other artifacts, the accounts of some of the survivors" --book jacket.
Author : Katherine Roberts
Publisher :
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 23,82 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Suffragettes
ISBN :
Author : E. Sylvia Pankhurst
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 27,68 MB
Release : 2017-09-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781528090339
Excerpt from The Suffragette: The History of the Women's Militant Suffrage Movement, 1905 1910 IN writing this history of the Militant Women's Suffrage Movement I have endeavoured to give a just and accurate account of its progress and happen ings, dealing fully with as many of its incidents as space will permit. I have tried to let my readers look behind the scenes in order that they may under stand both the steps by which the movement has grown and the motives and ideas that have animated its promoters. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Estelle Sylvia Pankhurst
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 18,51 MB
Release : 2013-09
Category :
ISBN : 9781230214153
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ... of the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Home Secretary." Mr. Balfour. Mr. Haldane, and Mr. Runciman were amongst those who spoke in support of the Bill, but the two Ministers urged that it should not be allowed to pass to one of the standing Committees. After thirty-nine speeches had been delivered the division was taken. The Second Reading was then found to have been carried by 299 votes to 190, giving a favourable majority of 109, a majority larger than that cast during the Parliament for any measure and even for the Government's vaunted Budget and House of Lords Resolutions. A division was next taken on a resolution to refer the Bill to a Committee of the Whole House. The Anti-Suffragists, in the hope of shelving the Bill, those who feared to anger the government and those who genuinely believed that so important a measure should be considered by the Whole House in each of its stages combined to carry this resolution by 320 votes to 175. The question was now whether the Government would allow the few days necessary for the Committee and other final stages. Practically all other important legislative work was hanging fire because of the deadlock in regard to the House of Lords controversy. The Conference between the leaders of the Conservative and Liberal parties, which, after King Edward's death, had been set up to discuss this matter, was still sitting and until its deliberations were at end no progress towards a settlement would be made. Therefore for the moment Parliament had plenty of time on its hands, and urgent pressure was brought upon the Government to give out of this abundance to the Women's Bill. On July 17th the Men's Political Union "for Women's Suffrage, the Men's League for Women's Suffrage and the Conciliation...
Author : Johanna Neuman
Publisher : Washington Mews Books/NYU Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 39,59 MB
Release : 2019-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1479806625
New York City’s elite women who turned a feminist cause into a fashionable revolution In the early twentieth century over two hundred of New York's most glamorous socialites joined the suffrage movement. Their names—Astor, Belmont, Rockefeller, Tiffany, Vanderbilt, Whitney and the like—carried enormous public value. These women were the media darlings of their day because of the extravagance of their costume balls and the opulence of the French couture clothes, and they leveraged their social celebrity for political power, turning women's right to vote into a fashionable cause. Although they were dismissed by critics as bored socialites “trying on suffrage as they might the latest couture designs from Paris,” these gilded suffragists were at the epicenter of the great reforms known collectively as the Progressive Era. From championing education for women, to pursuing careers, and advocating for the end of marriage, these women were engaged with the swirl of change that swept through the streets of New York City. Johanna Neuman restores these women to their rightful place in the story of women’s suffrage. Understanding the need for popular approval for any social change, these socialites used their wealth, power, social connections and style to excite mainstream interest and to diffuse resistance to the cause. In the end, as Neuman says, when change was in the air, these women helped push women’s suffrage over the finish line.