THE BRITISH WOMENS
SUFFRAGE CAMPAIGN
This book brings together twelve chapters from feminist historians from around the world to offer new perspectives on aspects of the campaign for womens suffrage in Britain.
Although the focus is on Britain, this volume signals how the womens suffrage campaign in Britain embraced both national and global aspects. The historical developments and structures that affected womens lives and suffrage struggles were not limited to national contexts. Early chapters focus on particular individuals both well and lesser known, including Millicent Garrett Fawcett and Emmeline Pankhurst, as well as Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy, Princess Sophia Duleep Singh, Lady Isabel Margesson and Isabella Ford. Later chapters highlight the interrelationship between the British movement and suffrage campaigns across the globe with reference to Austria, Japan, New Zealand, Australia and the USA. The chapters deal with issues around strategies, social class, employment, religion, nationalism, empire and race and explore complex issues about womens roles in campaigning for their democratic right to the parliamentary vote.
Offering the reader a broad view of the British womens suffrage movement, this is the ideal volume for students of womens and political history in both its national and international contexts.
June Purvis is Professor (Emerita) of Womens and Gender History at the University of Portsmouth, UK. She has published extensively on the suffragette movement in Edwardian Britain, including Emmeline Pankhurst: A Biography (2002) and Christabel Pankhurst: A biography (2018). She is the founding and managing editor of the journal Womens History Review, and also the editor for the Womens and Gender History book series with Routledge, and is currently Treasurer of the International Federation for Research in Womens History.
June Hannam is Professor (Emerita) of History at the University of West of England Bristol, UK. She has published extensively on women and socialism/the labour movement, and womens suffrage. Her many publications include Isabella Ford (1989), International Encyclopedia of Womens Suffrage, co-edited with Mitzi Aucherlonie and Katherine Holden (2000), Socialist Women: Britain, 1880s to 1920s co-written with Karen Hunt (2002) as well as numerous chapters in edited books.
Womens and Gender History
Edited by June Purvis
Quaker Women
Personal Life, Memory and Radicalism in the Lives of Women Friends, 17801930
Sandra Stanley Holton
Her Husband was a Woman!
Womens Gender-Crossing in Modern British Popular Culture
Alison Oram
The Womens Suffrage Movement in Britain and Ireland
A Regional Survey
Elizabeth Crawford
Womens Activism
Global Perspectives from the 1890s to the Present
Edited by Francisca de Haan, Margaret Allen, June Purvis and Krassimira Daskalova
Women, Diplomacy and International Politics since 1500
Edited by Glenda Sluga and Carolyn James
Women in Transnational History
Connecting the Local and the Global
Edited by Clare Midgley, Alison Twells and Julie Carlier
Christabel Pankhurst
A Biography
June Purvis
Engendering Transnational Transgression
From the Intimate to the Global
Edited by Eileen Boris, Sandra Trudgen Dawson and Barbara Molony
The British Womens Suffrage Campaign
National and International Perspectives
Edited by June Purvis and June Hannam
For more information about this series, please visit: www.routledge.com/Womens-and-Gender-History/book-series/SE0421.
THE BRITISH
WOMENS
SUFFRAGE
CAMPAIGN
National and International
Perspectives
Edited by June Purvis and June Hannam
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Names: Purvis, June, editor. | Hannam, June, 1947- editor.
Title: The British womens suffrage campaign : national and international perspectives/edited by June Purvis and June Hannam.
Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021. | Series: Womens and gender history | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020035502 (print) | LCCN 2020035503 (ebook) | ISBN 9780367902421 (hardback) | ISBN 9780367902414 (paperback) | ISBN 9781003023296 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: WomenSuffrageGreat Britain. | WomenGreat BritainHistory.
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Contents
June Purvis and June Hannam
Elizabeth Crawford
June Purvis
Maureen Wright
June Hannam
Elizabeth Baker
Lesley Spiers
Laura Schwartz
Karen Hunt
Monica Webb
Sharon Crozier-De Rosa
Johanna Gehmacher
Hiroko Tomida
Elizabeth Baker is Assistant Professor of European History, Grove City College, Pennsylvania, USA where she specialises in Modern Britain and the British Empire. Her research explores the connections between imperial activism, state power and gender performance in imperial Britain. She is currently working on her first monograph entitled More Romance Than Reality: Mary Carpenter, Native Gentlemen, and the National Indian Association, 18301880.
Elizabeth Crawford , an independent scholar, has been studying the womens suffrage movement for over 25 years. While researching The Womens Suffrage Movement: a reference guide (Routledge, 1999) she became interested in the work of Millicent Fawcett, her sisters Elizabeth Garrett Anderson and Agnes Garrett, her cousin Rhoda and the friends and relations who supported their various pioneering enterprises The result was Enterprising Women: the Garretts and their circle
