The Connell Short Guide to The Suffragettes - Softcover

Zoe Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 191118735X ISBN 13: 9781911187356

Publisher: Connell Guides, 2017

Synopsis

The campaign for female political suffrage which erupted in the years before World War One was the most significant expression of feminist activism in British history. But the suffragettes were divided in their aims: should they try and win the vote for all women, or only for those in the middle and upper classes? They were divided, too, about tactics. Were the militants vital to the campaigns success, or did peaceful activism, in the end, prove more effective? And how important was World War One itself in finally securing women the vote? Here Zoe Thomas examines both the arguments and how historians have interpreted them.

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About the Author

Zoe Thomas is a Teaching Fellow in Modern British History at the University of Birmingham. She recently finished her PhD in History at Royal Holloway, University of London on women in the British Arts and Crafts movement. She specialises in the history of women and work and is currently turning her thesis into a book, alongside co-editing a book titles 'Suffrage and the Arts', about women artists in the suffrage campaign.

Edition details

• Publisher: Connell Guides
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 191118735X
• ISBN 13: 9781911187356
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 52
• Editor: Jolyon Connell