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The militant suffrage movement : citizenship and resistance in Britain, 1860-1930

Author: Laura E Nym Mayhall
Publisher: [Oxford] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"Drawing upon private papers, pamphlets, newspapers, and the records of a range of suffrage and political organizations, Laura E. Nym Mayhall examines militancy as both a political idea and a set of practices that some suffragists employed to challenge their exclusion from the political nation. She traces the development of the concept of resistance from its origins within radical liberal discourse in the 1860s, to  Read more...
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Laura E Nym Mayhall
ISBN: 0195159934 9780195159936
OCLC Number: 50841104
Description: xiii, 218 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Rethinking suffrage --
Gender, citizenship, and the liberal state, 1860-1899 --
The South African War and after, 1899-1906 --
Staging exclusion, 1906-1909 --
Resistance on trial, 1906-1912 --
Embodying citizenship, 1908-1914 --
The ethics of resistance, 1910-1914 --
At war with and for the state, 1914-1918 --
Fetishizing militancy, 1918-1930.
Responsibility: Laura E. Nym Mayhall.
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"Drawing upon private papers, pamphlets, newspapers, and the records of a range of suffrage and political organizations, Laura E. Nym Mayhall examines militancy as both a political idea and a set of practices that some suffragists employed to challenge their exclusion from the political nation. She traces the development of the concept of resistance from its origins within radical liberal discourse in the 1860s, to its emergence as political practice during Britain's involvement in the South African War, its reliance on dramatic spectacle by suffragette organizations, and its memorialization following enfranchisement. She reads closely the language and tactics militants used, analyzing their challenges in the courtroom, on the street, and through legislation as reasoned actions of female citizens. The differences in strategy among militants are highlighted, not just in the use of violence, but also in their acceptance and rejection of the authority of the law and their definitions of the ideal relationship between individuals and the state. Variations in the nature of protest continued even during World War I, when most suffragettes suspended their activities to serve the nation's war effort, while others joined peace movements, opposed the state's reduction of civil liberties in wartime, and continued the struggle for suffrage."--BOOK JACKET.

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