num_pages: 240
description: This important collection of essays presents the best of recent feminist scholarship on the suffrage movement, illustrating its complexity, richness and diversity. Combining historical reappraisal with lively accounts of the culture of the women's suffrage movement, this volume offers a unique focus. It includes major new studies of the fascinating, but neglected groups that participated in the the Women's Franchise League; the Women's Tax Resistance League; and the United Suffragists. This is accompanied by new feminist research on poetry, fiction and drama that emerged from women's struggle for the vote. In addition there are reappraisals of two leading figures in the Pankhursts' Women's Social and Political Union, an illuminating analysis of the relationship between suffrage and sexuality, and a discussion of what happened away from the metropolis, as well as of the little known campaign to extend the vote after 1918.
language: English
title: The Women's Suffrage Movement: New Feminist Perspectives
titlecomplete: The Women's Suffrage Movement: New Feminist Perspectives
publisher: Manchester University Press