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A Suffrage Reader: Charting Directions in British Suffrage History

Name: A Suffrage Reader: Charting Directions in British Suffrage History
Author: Claire Eustance
ISBN: 9780718501785

by Claire Eustance (Editor), Joan Ryan (Editor), Laura Ugolini (Editor), Laura Ugolini

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This reader contains a mixture of new narratives on suffrage, together with reinterpretations of some long-established "truths" about the campaign by British women for the vote. Some chapters shift the focus from "the great and the good" based in London, and explore the issues which motivated supporters in other parts of Britain. Other chapters illuminate the lengths some men were prepared to go to see women become voters - and the lengths others were prepared to go to stop them. A variety of topics is covered by the contributors, who include both established scholars and writers relatively new to the field. "A Suffrage Reader" provides an opportunity to push back the boundaries of suffrage history, enabling us to think again about the diverse and sometimes contraditory motives for, and outcomes of, involvement in the long campaign by women for the vote in Britain. The book also makes it possible to pause and reflect upon recent developments in writing on suffrage history, and the extent to which this has been bound up with developing attitudes towards politics in the latter decades of the 20th century.

About the Author, Claire Eustance

Claire Eustance is a co-editor of the journal Gender and History and an independent researcher.

Joan Ryan is a principal lecturer in the School of Humanities at the University of Greenwich.

Laura Ugolini is a research assistant in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Wolverhampton.

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Addressing the period from the 1880s to the 1950s, this reader contains new essays exploring the diversity and fluidity of suffrage history and the historiography of suffrage in Britain. Some of the topics include the temperance movement; women who joined the fascist movement; and studies of individuals who devoted their lives to the women's suffrage campaign. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)