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Book SynopsisA collection of essays that present the best of feminist scholarship on the suffrage movement, illustrating its complexity. It includes major studies of the fascinating, but neglected groups that participated in the campaign: the Women's Franchise League; the Women's Freedom League; the Women's Tax Resistance League and the United Suffragists.
Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Writing of the Women’s Suffrage Movement: A ‘Coming of Age’
1. ‘Now you see it, now you don’t’: The Women’s Franchise League and its place in contending narratives of the women’s suffrage movement
2. A truly national movement: the view from outside London
3. Meanings of militancy: the ideas and practice of political resistance in the Women’s Freedom League, 1907-1914
4. Pay the piper, call the tune: the Women’s Tax Resistance League
5. ‘A party between revolution and peaceful persuasion’: the United Suffragists
6. Six Photographs
7. Suffragette fiction and the fictions of suffrage
8. Suffrage and poetry: radical women’s voices
9. Women’s suffrage drama
10. ‘A better world for both’ - men, cultural transformation, the stage, and the Suffragettes
11. Christabel Pankhurst and the Women’s Social and Political Union
12. ‘No surrender!’: the militancy of Mary Leigh, a working-class suffragette
13. Suffrage, sex and science
14. The old faith living and the old power there: the movement to extend women’s suffrage
15. British suffrage repositories
