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Informationen zum Autor Harold L. Smith is Professor of History at the University of Houston-Victoria! and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society of Great Britain. His previous books include: (with Judith N. McArthur) Minnie Fisher Cunningham: A Suffragist's Life in Politics (2003); Britain in the Second World War: A Social History (1996) and British Feminism in the Twentieth Century (1990). Klappentext 2nd edition. Uses new evidence to explore the NUSEC, the post-1918 women's organisation, which worked with the Conservative Party. Zusammenfassung This Seminar Study was the first book to trace the British womens suffrage campaign from its origins in the 1860s through to the achievement of equal suffrage in 1928. In this second edition, Smith provides new evidence drawn from the authors research on how the main post-1918 womens organisation (the NUSEC) worked with Conservative Party women to persuade the Conservative Party to endorse equal franchise rights. Smith focuses on the actions of reformers and their opponents, with due attention paid to the campaigns in Scotland and Wales as well as the movements in England. He explores why womens suffrage was such a contentious issue, and how women gained the vote despite opponents fears that it would undermine gender boundaries. Suitable for students studying the Suffrage Movement, modern British history and the history of gender. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Chronology Abbreviations Who's Who Glossary PART ONE 1. Introduction PART TWO 2 . The Victorian Suffrage Campaign, 1866-97 3. The Constitutional Societies, 1897-1910 4. The Militant Societies, 1903-14 5. The Nuwss-Labour Alliance, 1910-14 6. War And Suffrage Reform, 1914-18 7. Equal Franchise, 1919-28 PART THREE 8. Assessment PART FOUR Documents Guide To Further Reading References Index ...
