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Henpecked

Winston Churchill and Women's Suffrage

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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Henpecked: Winston Churchill and Women’s Suffrage explores the recurrent interactions between Winston Churchill and the women’s suffrage movement in Britain. Churchill purposely concealed, under a discursive veil, his complex and shifting perceptions of women’s competency to use the franchise. In balancing a public stance that vaguely favored the “principle” of women’s suffrage with his, often private, opposition to the movement’s legislative efforts, he employed every available rhetorical tool. This book presents a new understanding of his early Parliamentary career, his ability to manipulate public and private discourse, and his complicated stance on women’s right to vote. This rhetorical history challenges the view that Winston Churchill was only dissuaded in his support of women’s suffrage by the militancy of suffrage activists.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-12-01
Mått152 x 229 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieRhetoric of Power and Protest
Antal sidor346
FörlagMichigan State University Press
ISBN9781611865929

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Cheryl Jorgensen-Earp is Professor Emerita of Communication Studies at the University of Lynchburg. She has received several awards for research and teaching, including the 2021 Golden Anniversary Monograph Award from the National Communication Association, the Huston Award for Scholarship from the University of Lynchburg, and the 2001 Virginia Professor of the Year from CASE/Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.

“Meticulously researched and engagingly written, Jorgensen-Earp offers a rhetorical history of Winston Churchill’s early political career through his relationship to the British women’s suffrage movement, making a persuasive case that we cannot fully understand one without the other.”—Leslie J. Harris, Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, author of State of the Marital Union: Rhetoric, Identity, and Nineteenth-Century Marriage Controversies.