This account examines some of the areas of women's political activity in Britain from the Glorious Revolution to the election of the first female Prime Minister in 1979. It shows how women had worked in a variety of arenas and organizations before the suffrage campaign and explores the directions their political activity took afterwards.

Women in British Politics, c.1689-1979 (Gender and History)

History

Cowman, Krista

Europe

Red Globe Press

This survey examines some of the areas of women's political activity in Britain from the Glorious Revolution to the election of the first female Prime Minister in 1979. It shows how women had worked in a variety of arenas and organisations before the suffrage campaign and explores the directions their political activity took afterwards.

Women in British Politics, c.1689-1979 (Gender and History, 24)

This book is the first investigation on how official organizers built and sustained the national militant campaign of the Women's Social and Political Union between 1903 and 1918. While the overall policy of the Union was devised by an ever-decreasing circle of women, centered around the mother-daughter team of Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst, much of its actual activity, including its more extreme militant actions such as arson, was devised and implemented by these organizers who worked in the provinces and in London.

Women of the Right Spirit: Paid Organisers of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), 1904-18 (Gender in History)

Manchester University Press

This book is the first investigation on how official organizers built and sustained the national militant campaign of the Women’s Social and Political Union between 1903 and 1918. Whilst the overall policy of the Union was devised by an ever-decreasing circle of women, centred around the mother-daughter team of Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst, much of its actual activity, including its more extreme militant actions such as arson, was devised and implemented by these organizers who worked in the provinces and in London. Women of the right spirit reveals organizers to be a diverse bunch of women, whose class backgrounds ranged from the aristocratic to the extremely impoverished. It describes the ways in which they were recruited and deployed, and the work they undertook throughout Britain. The exhausting pace of their itinerant life is revealed as well as the occasions when organizers fell out with their employers or their own branches. Taking the story of the WSPU’s workers up to the end of the First World War, it considers what directions they took when votes for women became a reality. The book will appeal to academics, postgraduates and undergraduates with an interest in women’s history, as well as a more general readership wishing to understand the extent of support for the votes for women campaign and the mechanisms through which it organized.

Women of the right spirit: Paid organisers of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), 1904–18 (Gender in History)

This book offers the first detailed regional study of women’s politics in the United Kingdom in the period before the First World War. Its purpose is to investigate how women’s politics functioned at the grass roots, away from the schisms and personality clashes of the national political scene. The book investigates the membership, activities and campaigning methodologies of a variety of formal political organizations ranging from branches of national auxiliary bodies such as the Women’s Liberal Federation through women’s involvement in local branches of the Independent Labor Party and on to the autonomous suffrage organizations. The impact of the all-female suffrage campaigns on older political groups in which women still competed with men for positions and policies is also considered. The book extends into the First World War, and investigates the new alliance that were formed when earlier societies contracted or closed.

Mrs Brown is a Man and a Brother: Women in Merseyside’s Political Organisations 1890-1920

Liverpool University Press

The Routledge Companion to British Women’s Suffrage

Taylor&Francis

The Militant Suffragette Movement in York (Borthwick Papers)

Borthwick Institute Publications

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