The Militant Suffrage Movement : Citizenship and Resistance in Britain, 1860-1930.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (233 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Rethinking Suffrage -- 1 Gender, Citizenship, and the Liberal State, 1860-1899 -- 2 The South African War and After, 1899-1906 -- 3 Staging Exclusion, 1906-1909 -- 4 Resistance on Trial, 1906-1912 -- 5 Embodying Citizenship, 1908-1914 -- 6 The Ethics of Resistance, 1910-1914 -- 7 At War with and for the State, 1914 -1918 -- Conclusion: Fetishizing Militancy, 1918-1930 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
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" 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, including the origins of resistance's origins within liberal political tradition, its emergence during Britain's involvement in the South African War, and its enactment as spectacle.