"Alice Hawkins and the Suffragette Movement" is a study about a
woman who gave her life to the cause and, through her personality,
shaped the lives of thousands of women. It also seeks to redress
the balance and add to our understanding of who the suffragettes
were, as an integral organisation and part of women's equality. The
campaign for the suffrage is perhaps the best-known aspect of
women's political fight in the early part of the 20th century, yet
little is known of the local women who engaged in this struggle.
Indeed, the assumption that only wealthy women were involved in the
militant campaign has led not only to the distortion of the WSPU
membership, but it also neglects the significant contribution made
by working-class women within it. Previously, few investigations
have been carried out into local organisations of the Women's
Social and Political Union, and as a consequence our understanding
of local women within the party has been limited. Focusing on this
central omission, this book, through the life and times of Alice
Hawkins, seeks to redress the balance and add to our understanding
of who the suffragettes were. But, more importantly, this book is
about a woman who gave her life to the cause and, through her
personality, shaped the lives of thousands of women. The importance
of this book is that it is now slowly being recognised that history
cannot shut away the lives and experiences of thousands of women
like Alice Hawkins to concentrate on what was, to all intents and
purposes, the public sphere. Her history, and those women like her,
is an important omission, and without it the social composition of
the movement will always remain unclear and the extent to which
working women were involved will always remain hidden. Thus, the
story of Alice Hawkins and the Leicester WSPU is, without, doubt,
crucial to our understanding of the organisation.
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