One of the most memorable images of the British women's suffrage
movement occurred on June 4, Derby Day, 1913. As the field of
horses approached a turning at Epsom, militant suffragette Emily
Wilding Davison ducked out from under the railing and ran onto the
track, reaching for the bridle of the King's horse, and was killed
in the collision. While her death transformed her into a heroine,
it all but erased her identity. To identify what impelled Davison
to suffer multiple imprisonments, to experience the torture of
force-feedings and the insults of hostile members of the crowds who
came to hear her speak, Carolyn P. Collette explores a largely
ignored source--the writing to which Davison dedicated so much time
and effort during the years from 1908 to 1913. Davison's writing is
an implicit apologia for why she lived the life of a militant
suffragette and where she continually revisits and restates the
principles that guided her: that woman suffrage was necessary to
improve the lives of men, women, and children; that the freedom and
justice women sought was sanctioned by God and unjustly withheld by
humans whose opposition constituted a tyranny that had to be
opposed; and that the evolution of human progress demanded that
women become fully equal citizens of their nation in every
respect-- politically, economically, and culturally.
"In the Thick of the Fight" makes available for the first time
the archive of published and unpublished writings of Emily Wilding
Davison. Collette reorients both scholarly and public attention
away from a single, defining event to the complexity of Davison's
contributions to modern feminist discourse, giving the reader a
sense of the vibrancy and diversity of Davison's suffrage
writings.
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