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  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series Information
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. Foreword: the women’s movement, war and the vote. Some reflections on 1918 and its aftermath
    1. I
    2. II
    3. III
    4. IV
  9. List of tables
  10. List of contributors
  11. Acknowledgements
  12. Introduction
    1. Historiographical context
    2. Contributions
    3. Conclusion
  13. I. Working within existing political structures
    1. 1. The ‘success of every great movement had been largely due to the free and continuous exercise of the right to petition’: Irish suffrage petitioners and parliamentarians in the nineteenth century
      1. Introduction
      2. The ‘particular’ case of Ireland
      3. The early years of suffrage activity in Ireland
      4. Irish politicians at Westminster
      5. The founding of the Dublin Women’s Suffrage Association
      6. Petitions
      7. Conclusion
    2. 2. Singing ‘The Red Flag’ for suffrage: class, feminism and local politics in the Canning Town branch of the Women’s Social and Political Union, 1906–7
      1. A brief history of the Canning Town branch of the WSPU
      2. Membership and culture
      3. Beliefs and objectives
      4. Priorities and strategies
      5. Conclusion
    3. 3. Suffrage organizers, grassroots activism and the campaign in Wales
      1. Suffrage societies and Welsh identity: an overview
      2. Suffrage organizers, cultural clashes and regional centres
      3. Welsh language, Liberalism and rural communities
      4. Coalfield communities, the labour movement and suffrage
      5. Conclusion
    4. 4. Suffrage, infant welfare and women’s politics in Walsall, 1910–39
      1. Women’s suffrage in Walsall
      2. The infant welfare movement in Walsall
      3. Walsall in the aftermath of enfranchisement
      4. Conclusion
    5. 5. ‘Keep your eyes on us because there is no more napping’: the wartime suffrage campaigns of the Suffragettes of the WSPU and the Independent WSPU
      1. Suffrage responses to war
      2. ‘Reunite without delay’: the establishment of the Suffragettes of the WSPU and Independent WSPU
      3. Wartime suffrage campaigning
      4. Adult suffrage versus partial suffrage
      5. Wider concerns: National Registration Day and the Royal Commission for Venereal Disease
      6. The Speaker’s Conference and the Representation of the People Act
      7. Conclusion
  14. II. Working through social and cultural structures
    1. 6. English girls’ schools and women’s suffrage
    2. 7. ‘A mistake to raise any controversial question at the present time’: the careful relationship of Glasgow’s suffragists with the press, 1902–18
      1. The Glasgow and West of Scotland Association for Women’s Suffrage
      2. The oxygen of publicity
      3. Relations with the suffrage press
      4. Conclusion
    3. 8. ‘The weakest link’: suffrage writing, class interests and the isolated woman of leisure
    4. 9. Militancy in the marital sphere: sex strikes, marriage strikes and birth strikes as militant suffrage tactics, 1911–14
      1. The three tactics: sex-, marriage- and birth-striking
      2. Striking, militancy and gender
      3. Sex and birth strikes as women’s sacrifice
      4. Conclusion
  15. III. Navigating international structures
    1. 10. ‘East Side Londoners’: Sylvia Pankhurst’s lecture tours of North America and the East London Federation of Suffragettes
      1. Organizational models: the WTUL and settlement houses
      2. Emerson and the CWTUL
      3. The Lewisohns and Henry Street Settlement
      4. Recontextualizing 1912
    2. 11. Suffrage internationalism in practice: Dora Montefiore and the lessons of Finnish women’s enfranchisement
      1. Dora Montefiore visits Finland
      2. Telling the story of Finnish women’s enfranchisement
      3. Competing narratives of Finnish women’s enfranchisement
      4. Putting the Finnish example to work in the polarized suffrage politics of Britain
      5. New voices and new emphases
      6. Conclusion
    3. 12. Emotions and empire in suffrage and anti-suffrage politics: Britain, Ireland and Australia in the early twentieth century
      1. Introduction
      2. A history of emotions and politics
      3. Ireland and the complex dynamics of gender, shame and colonization
      4. Australian women voters, colonial anxiety and national pride
      5. British anti-suffragists and the embarrassment of colonial naivety
      6. Conclusion
    4. 13. From Votes for Women to world revolution: British and Irish suffragettes and international communism, 1919–39
      1. Introduction
      2. Engagement with Comintern front organizations
      3. Emigration to Soviet Russia and employment in Comintern institutions
      4. The view from the Comintern
      5. Conclusion
  16. Afterword: a tale of two centennials: suffrage, suffragettes and the limits of political participation in Britain and America
    1. Radicalism and respectability
    2. ‘I’d rather be a rebel than a slave’
  17. Index

Acknowledgements

First and foremost, we would like to thank all the authors who have contributed chapters to this volume. It has been a pleasure and a privilege to work with them all and we thank them for their patience and hard work during a time when research and writing often felt impossible. Thanks also to Professor Susan Grayzel, Professor Nicolletta F. Gullace, Dr Zoë Thomas and Professor Selina Todd for their advice and encouragement throughout this process. We would like to thank the Women in the Humanities programme and the John Fell Fund at the University of Oxford and the Royal Historical Society for their generous financial support for the Women’s Suffrage and Beyond Conference held at Oxford in 2018, at which the scholarship in this volume was first presented. We are also grateful to the Women’s History Network in general, and to Professor Maggie Andrews in particular, for their efforts to showcase and champion new writing in women’s history. Thanks must also go to the Royal Historical Society, Institute of Historical Research and University of London Press for commissioning and publishing this volume. Within these organisations we would particularly like to thank Jamie Bowman, Robert Davies, Lauren De’Ath, Emily Morrell, Heather Shone and Jane Winters, for their enthusiasm for the book and their guidance and assistance throughout the writing and editing process. Thanks also to Priya Kelly for her assistance with the index. We are also grateful to the anonymous peer reviewers who offered thoughtful and constructive feedback on our proposal. Finally, we would like to thank our families. Your patience, encouragement and support throughout the whole process has been extraordinary.

A very special thanks to our mentor, Professor Senia Pašeta, to whom this book is dedicated. Her guidance and support have been invaluable, not only in the process of taking this project from a call for papers for a conference to a completed volume, but in all aspects of our research and careers. We, like several successive generations of students and early career researchers at Oxford, especially scholars of women’s history, owe her a great debt. Her generosity, kindness and rigour are deeply appreciated, and we are extremely grateful for her ongoing counsel and friendship.

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