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The Militant Suffrage Movement - Citizenship and Resistance in Britain, 1860-1930 (Paperback)
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The Militant Suffrage Movement - Citizenship and Resistance in Britain, 1860-1930 (Paperback)
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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.
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