March of the Women - A Revisionist Analysis of Campaign for Women s Suffrage, 1866 1914

Zusatztext A concise, fully documented, up-to-date "revisionist analysis" of the women's suffrage campaign is long overdue. Nobody is better equipped to write it than Martin Pugh, who has illuminated so many dimensions of women's history since the 1970s Klappentext The March of the Women is the first comprehensive analysis of the campaign for women's suffrage to appear for thirty years. It offers a fresh perspective on the militant and non-militant tactics used by the suffragettes! and shows how they gradually convinced the entrenched all-male Members of Parliament of the validity of their cause by the outbreak of the First World War. Zusammenfassung The March of the Women is the first comprehensive analysis of the campaign for women's suffrage to appear in thirty years. It offers a fresh perspective on the militant and non-militant tactics used by the suffragettes, and shows how they gradually convinced the entrenched all-male Members of Parliament of the validity of their cause by the outbreak of World War 1. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction The Issues; 2: The Debate Winning the Advantage; 4: The Impact of International Development on Women's Suffrage 5: Conservatism: The Unexpected Ally 6: Liberalism: The Unexpected Enemy 7: The Failure of Anti-Suffragism Edwardian Climax; 9: Women's Suffrage and Public Opinion 10: The Revival of Non-Militant Suffragism, 1912-1914 Epilogue: War and the Vote

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• Authors: Martin Pugh, Martin ( Pugh, Martin (Research Professor in History At Liv Pugh, Martin (Research Professor in History at Liverpool John Moores University) Pugh, Pugh Martin
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.01.2002
• EAN: 9780199250226
• ISBN: 978-0-19-925022-6
• No. of pages: 316
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political system; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Women in Politics, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Elections & referenda, Elections and referenda / suffrage