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Emmeline Pankhurst
Emmeline Pankhurst was perhaps the most influential woman of the twentieth century. Today her name is synonymous with the 'votes for women' campaign and she is remembered as the most brave and inspirational suffrage leader in history. In this absorbing account of her life both before and after the campaign for women's suffrage, June Purvis documents her early political work, her active role within the suffrage movement and her role as a wife and mother within her family. This fascinating full-length biography of Emmeline Pankhurst, the first for nearly seventy years, draws upon new approaches to feminist biography to place her within the context of her family and friends. It is based upon an unrivalled range of primary sources, including personal interviews with her surviving family.
'What Purvis does for Emmeline Pankhurst in her new biography is to provide a detailed, scrupulous, excellently researched retelling of the story, and thus offer a vindication of the woman.' - Michael Foot, The Guardian 'The product of careful and thorough research, offering in many respects an important corrective to established views ... Purvis has tracked down surviving letters in many scattered collections, as well as patiently trawling through newspaper reports of Emmeline's speeches, and gaining exclusive access to the late Jill Craigie's collection of suffrage material' - Mark Bostridge, Times Literary Supplement
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Women's Activism
Women's Activism brings together twelve innovative contributions from feminist historians from around the world to look at how women have always found ways to challenge or fight inequalities and hierarchies as individuals, in international women's organizations, as political leaders, and in global forums such as the United Nations.
The book is divided into three parts. Part one, brings together four essays about organized women's activism across borders. The chapters in part two focus on the variety of women's activism and explore women's activism in different national and political contexts. And part three explores the changing relationships and inequalities among women.
This book addresses women's internationalism and struggle for their rights in the international arena; it deals with racism and colonialism in Australia, India and Europe; women's movements and political activism in South Africa, Eastern Bengal (Bangladesh), the United Kingdom, Japan and France. Essential reading for anyone interested in women's history and the history of activism more generally
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Votes For Women
Votes for Women provides an innovative re-examination of the suffrage movement, presenting new perspectives which challenge the existing literature on this subject. This fascinating book charts the history of the movement in Britain from the nineteenth century to the postwar period, assessing important figures such as;* Emmeline Pankhurst and the militant wing* Millicent Garrett Fawcett, leader of the constitutional wing*Jennie Baines and her link with the international suffrage movements.
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Olive Banks (1923-2006): an appreciation
This Appreciation of Olive Banks (1923-2006) draws upon her memoir published in Women's History Review, Vol. 8, No. 3, 1999, pp. 401-410, and upon the author's recollections of and correspondence with her. Born into a solidly working-class family, Olive Banks overcame the disadvantages of her social class background and gender to become an internationally recognised Professor of Sociology, well known for her contribution to the developing field of the sociology of education and especially for her pioneering work on the history of feminism. Her contribution to women's history was important at a time when the discipline was developing as an academic field of study in higher education in the 1980s in the USA and Britain.
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Housewives and Citizens: Domesticity and the Women's Movement in England, 1928-64
Housewives and Citizens: Domesticity and the Women's Movement in England, 1928-64 By Caitriona Beaumont Manchester University Press 272pp, Pounds 65.00 ISBN 9780719086076 Published 1 September 2013 Histories of the women's movement in England have commonly focused on the suffrage and post-suffrage feminist societies, suggesting that after the passing of the 1928 Equal Franchise Act the movement declined in the 1930s, only to be revived in the late 1960s when the women's liberation movement suddenly burst on to the scene. Perhaps the chapter on divorce, birth control and abortion (a criminal act until 1967) in the inter-war years is the most relevant in illustrating many of the author's points.
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Victoria's Madmen: Revolution and Alienation
Published 2 August 2013 Although Victorianism has a number of contested meanings, it is commonly associated with conformity, religious piety, imperialism, industrialisation, social class hierarchies, racial superiority and social etiquette. For some reformers, such as Annie Besant, the divorced wife of an Anglican clergyman who lost her Christian faith, other spiritual avenues were attractive.
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