| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 218 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-208) and index. |
| Contents |
Rethinking suffrage -- Gender, citizenship, and the liberal state, 1860-1899 -- The South African War and after, 1899-1906 -- Staging exclusion, 1906-1909 -- Resistance on trial, 1906-1912 -- Embodying citizenship, 1908-1914 -- The ethics of resistance, 1910-1914 -- At war with and for the state, 1914-1918 -- Fetishizing militancy, 1918-1930. |
| Summary |
The image of upper-class women chaining themselves to the rails of 10 Downing Street, smashing windows of public buildings, and going on hunger strikes in the cause of "votes for women" have become visually synonomous with the British suffragette movement over the past century. Their story has become lore among feminists, in effect separating women's fight for voting rights from contemporary issues in British political history and disconnecting their militancy from other forms of political militancy in Britain in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Mayhall examines the strategies that suffragettes employed to challenge the definitions of citizenship in Britain. She examines the resistance origins within liberal political tradition, its emergence during Britain's involvement in the South African War, and its enactment as spectacle. Enlarging the study of the militant campaign for suffrage, Mayhall analyzes not only its implications for the social history of gender but also, and more importantly, its connections to British political and intellectual history. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
South African War (1899-1902) |
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War of 1880-1881 (Transvaal, South Africa : 1880-1881) |
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Women -- Suffrage -- Great Britain -- History.
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Women -- Suffrage. |
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Great Britain. |
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History. |
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Women's rights -- Great Britain -- History.
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Women's rights. |
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Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1837-1901.
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Politics and government. |
| Chronological Term |
1837-1901 |
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Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1901-1936.
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| Chronological Term |
1901-1936 |
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Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901.
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Great Britain -- History -- Edward VII, 1901-1910.
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Great Britain -- History -- George V, 1910-1936.
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South African War, 1899-1902.
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Transvaal (South Africa) -- History -- War of 1880-1881.
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| Chronological Term |
1837-1936 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Subject |
Women. |
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Womyn. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Mayhall, Laura E. Nym, 1963- Militant suffrage movement. [Oxford] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003 0195159934 (DLC) 2002192670 (OCoLC)50841104 |
| ISBN |
9780195347838 (electronic book) |
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0195347838 (electronic book) |
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0195185633 (electronic book) |
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9780195185638 (electronic book) |
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1280503068 |
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9781280503061 |
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0195159934 |
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9780195159936 |
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