Feminist Media History

MARIA DICENZO Associate Professor of English and Film Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada. She has published on feminist media history and the British suffrage press in journals such as Media History, Women's History Review, Victorian Review, and Nineteenth Century Gender Studies.  LUCY DELAP Fellow of St Catharine's College and a member of the History Faculty, University of Cambridge, UK. Her 2007 book The Feminist Avant-Garde: Transatlantic Encounters of the Early Twentieth Century won the 2008 Women's History Network Prize, and she has published widely on the history of feminism in Britain and North America.LEILA RYAN holds a Graduate School appointment as an Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing at McMaster University. She has published in the areas of health policy and health services as well as on Canadian biography in The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature.

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: The Challenges and Contributions of Feminist Media History PART I: PUBLICS, SOCIAL MOVEMENTS, AND MEDIA HISTORY Revisiting Debates about the Public Sphere Publics and Counterpublics Publics and Social Movements The Private and the Public Suffrage History and Social Movements Key Aspects of Contentious Collective Action Social Movement Organizations Temporal Continuity and Cycles of Protest Framing Culture and Social Movements Media and Social Movements Situating Women's Political Periodicals in Press/Media History The Impact of Feminist Media Research New Directions The Feminist Press and Alternative Media Significance of Early Feminist Media The Case Studies PART II: THE CASE STUDIES Unity and Dissent: Official Organs of the Suffrage Campaign; M.DiCenzo The Englishwoman: 'Twelve Years of Brilliant Life'; L.Ryan Individualism and Introspection: the framing of feminism in The Freewoman ; L.Delap Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

'In its consideration of a selection of periodicals relating to the women's suffrage campaign during the Edwardian age , such as Votes for Women , The Common Cause and The Freewoman , this book offers a wonderful reminder of the range and complexity of ideas circulating in the early feminist press . The chapter on the much-neglected journal The Englishwoman is particularly welcome." - Jane Purvis, THE'The authors' varied disciplinary perspectives make this book engaging reading but do not interfere with the book's focus. This brief examination will serve as a catalyst for additional research on the suffrage movement.' - R. Ray, Mississippi State University