The transfiguring sword
Subtitle: the just war of the women's social and political union
By: Cheryl R. Jorgensen-Earp.
Series: Studies in rhetoric and communication
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 201
Subjects: Women's Party (Great Britain) -- History.; Suffragists -- Great Britain -- Biography.; Women -- Suffrage -- Great Britain -- History.; Political violence -- Great Britain -- History.
Description: Cheryl R. Jorgensen-Earp provides a new understanding of the recurrent rhetorical need to employ conservative rhetoric in support of a radical cause. Her study challenges the common view that the suffragettes' use of military metaphors, their vilification of the government, and their violent attacks on property were signs of hysteria and self-destruction.

Instead, what emerges is a picture of a deliberate, if controversial, strategy of violence supported by a rhetorical defense of unusual power and consistency.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-193) and index.