Sisters and Sisterhood - The Kenney Family, Class, and Suffrage, 1890-1965

By studying a family of working-class suffragettes, Lyndsey Jenkins explores when, why and how the Kenney family got involved in militant suffrage campaigning, what it meant to them, how they benefited, and how it shaped their lives.

List of contents

• 1: Introduction


• 2: Childhood


• 3: Beliefs


• 4: Class


• 5: Militancy


• 6: Aftermath


• 7: Conclusion

About the author

Lyndsey Jenkins is a historian of nineteenth and twentieth century Britain with a particular interest in gender, politics, and social change. She is currently a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Queen Mary, University of London. Her doctoral research was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and undertaken at Wolfson College, Oxford. She holds degrees from the University of Warwick, the London School of Economics and Political Science, and the University of East Anglia. She has taught at Mansfield, Magdalen and St John's Colleges, Oxford, as well as the University of Reading, King's College, London, and Queen Mary. She was a civil servant for ten years, and spent most of that time as a government speechwriter, working for cabinet ministers on issues relating to education, housing, and local government.

Summary

By studying a family of working-class suffragettes, Lyndsey Jenkins explores when, why and how the Kenney family got involved in militant suffrage campaigning, what it meant to them, how they benefited, and how it shaped their lives.

Additional text

I really enjoyed this collective longitudinal biographical study and refreshing approach to history.

Product details

• Authors: Jenkins , Lyndsey Jenkins, Lyndsey (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow Jenkins, Jenkins Lyndsey
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2021
• EAN: 9780192848802
• ISBN: 978-0-19-284880-2
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Oxford Historical Monographs
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas; European History, HISTORY / Modern / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Europe / Ireland, Political activism, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, British & Irish history, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, Social and cultural history, Political activism / Political engagement