Women's Suffrage movement

Maroula Joannou is Senior Lecturer in English at Anglia Ruskin University. June Purvis is Professor of Women's & Gender History at Portsmouth University and Editor of Women's History Review

• Introduction: The Writing of the Women’s Suffrage Movement: A ‘Coming of Age’1. ‘Now you see it, now you don’t’: The Women’s Franchise League and its place in contending narratives of the women’s suffrage movement2. A truly national movement: the view from outside London3. Meanings of militancy: the ideas and practice of political resistance in the Women’s Freedom League, 1907-19144. Pay the piper, call the tune: the Women’s Tax Resistance League5. ‘A party between revolution and peaceful persuasion’: the United Suffragists6. Six Photographs7. Suffragette fiction and the fictions of suffrage8. Suffrage and poetry: radical women’s voices9. Women’s suffrage drama10. ‘A better world for both’ - men, cultural transformation, the stage, and the Suffragettes11. Christabel Pankhurst and the Women’s Social and Political Union12. ‘No surrender!’: the militancy of Mary Leigh, a working-class suffragette13. Suffrage, sex and science14. The old faith living and the old power there: the movement to extend women’s suffrage15. British suffrage repositories

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