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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

Contents

Foreword: the women’s movement, war and the vote.
Some reflections on 1918 and its aftermath

Susan R. Grayzel, Utah State University

List of tables

List of contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Alexandra Hughes-Johnson, University of Oxford, and
Lyndsey Jenkins, Queen Mary, University of London

I. Working within existing political structures

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

Jennifer Redmond, Maynooth University

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

Lyndsey Jenkins, Queen Mary, University of London

3.Suffrage organizers, grassroots activism and the campaign in Wales

Beth Jenkins, University of Essex

4.Suffrage, infant welfare and women’s politics in Walsall, 1910–39

Anna Muggeridge, University of Worcester

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

Alexandra Hughes-Johnson, University of Oxford

II. Working through social and cultural structures

6.English girls’ schools and women’s suffrage

Helen Sunderland, University of Cambridge

7.‘A mistake to raise any controversial question at the present time’: the careful relationship of Glasgow’s suffragists with the press, 1902–18

Sarah Pedersen, Robert Gordon University

8.‘The weakest link’: suffrage writing, class interests and the isolated woman of leisure

Sos Eltis, University of Oxford

9.Militancy in the marital sphere: sex strikes, marriage strikes and birth strikes as militant suffrage tactics, 1911–14

Tania Shew, University of Manchester

III. Navigating international structures

10.‘East Side Londoners’: Sylvia Pankhurst’s lecture tours of North America and the East London Federation of Suffragettes

Katherine Connelly, Arcadia University

11.Suffrage internationalism in practice: Dora Montefiore and the lessons of Finnish women’s enfranchisement

Karen Hunt, University of Keele

12.Emotions and empire in suffrage and anti-suffrage politics: Britain, Ireland and Australia in the early twentieth century

Sharon Crozier-De Rosa, University of Wollongong

13.From Votes for Women to world revolution: British and Irish suffragettes and international communism, 1919–39

Maurice J. Casey, Irish Emigration Museum

Afterword: a tale of two centennials: suffrage, suffragettes and the limits of political participation in Britain and America

Nicoletta F. Gullace, University of New Hampshire

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