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Sisters and Sisterhood - The Kenney Family, Class, and Suffrage, 1890-1965 (Hardcover)
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Sisters and Sisterhood - The Kenney Family, Class, and Suffrage, 1890-1965 (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Historical Monographs
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The Kenney family grew up in Saddleworth, outside Oldham, in the
last decades of the nineteenth century. In 1905, three of the
sisters met Christabel Pankhurst, a turning point which changed the
rest of their lives. Annie Kenney became one of the leaders of the
Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), Jessie was an organiser
at the heart of the organisation, and Nell campaigned outside the
capital. Caroline and Jane used their connections within the
suffrage movement as the springboard for careers in innovative
education on both sides of the Atlantic. While working-class women
are increasingly acknowledged in histories of the WSPU, this study
is the first to make them the primary focus, and, in doing so, it
opens up a new conversation around sex, class, and politics, and
how these categories interacted in this period. This is a study of
the possibilities for, and experiences of, working-class women in
the militant suffrage movement. It identifies why these women
became politically active, their experiences as activists, and the
benefits they gained from their political work. It stresses the
need to see working-class women as significant actors and
autonomous agents in the suffrage campaign. It shows why and how
some women became politicised, why they prioritised the vote above
all else, and how this campaign came to dominate their lives. It
also places the suffrage campaign within the broader trajectory of
their lives to stress how far the personal and political were
intertwined for these women. Although this is a book about
'working-class suffragettes', Lyndsey Jenkins also reveals what it
says about women as workers and teachers, religious believers and
political thinkers, and friends and colleagues, as well as
suffragettes. Above all, it is a study of sisterhood.
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