June Purvis
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3660037 |
|---|---|
| NOME | June Purvis |
| PRENOMES | June |
| SOBRENOME | Purvis |
| ASSINATURA | PURVIS J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Editor of Women’s History Review |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 59 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 187 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 53 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 6 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1984 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Remembering Muriel Rose Allen, MBE (1931–2024)
This obituary of the late Muriel Allen (1931–2024) explores how, despite being born into a large, poor working-class family in London and receiving a limited education, she rose to become a philanthropist and, in 1984, the first woman to be appointed prison governor of a men’s prison in the UK: Kingston prison, Portsmouth, Hampshire. Up to 1984, only men had been governors of prisons for male inmates, but Muriel Allen decided to test the 1975 UK …
The British Women’s Suffrage Campaign
"This book brings together twelve chapters from feminist historians from around the world to offer new perspectives on aspects of the campaign for women's suffrage in Britain. It signals how the women's suffrage campaign in Britain embraced both national and global aspects. Chapters deal with issues around strategies, social class, employment, religion, nationalism, empire and race and explore complex issues about women's roles in campaigning for…
Did militancy help or hinder the granting of women's suffrage in Britain
This Viewpoint is one of three discussing the question of whether the ‘militant’ tactics of the suffragettes, as member of the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) were called in Edwardian Britain, helped or hindered the granting of women’s suffrage. In this contribution, it is suggested that militancy embraced a broad range of behaviours, both legal and illegal, that were central to the WSPU campaign and to the granting of the parliamentary…
Congratulations to Laura Goffman
A History of the Girl
A History of the Girl
"This book is centered on the history of the girl from the medieval period through to the early twenty-first century. Authored by an international team of scholars, the volume explores the transition from adolescent girlhood to young womanhood, the formation and education of girls in the home and in school, and paid work undertaken by girls in different parts of the world and at different times. It highlights the value of a comparative approach t…
Christabel Pankhurst
Together with her mother, Emmeline, Christabel Pankhurst co-led the single-sex Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU), founded in 1903 and soon regarded as the most notorious of the groupings campaigning for the parliamentary vote for women. A First Class Honours Graduate in Law, the determined and charismatic Christabel, a captivating orator, revitalised the women’s suffrage campaign by rousing thousands of women to become suffragettes, as WS…
Representing, Remembering and Rewriting Women's Histories of the First World War
persuasively argued, in the British popular imagination the First World War is associated with mud, barbed wire, the trenches and the Tommy on the Western Front. 1 Perhaps inevitably, therefore, public commemoration of the war has often been dominated by a focus on the men in the armed forces, who risked or lost their lives for causes that at the time may or may not have seemed heroic, noble or simply unavoidable
A Glass Half Full'? Women's history in the UK
This article offers an overview of the development of women's history in the UK over the last twenty years or so. It is noted that over this period women's history has expanded massively, an expansion that has cut across national boundaries and drawn in scholars from other disciplines than History. Eight themes in women's history are identified as being prominent during this time—a focus on the modern period (post 1780), a strong empirical bent, …
The Women's Party of Great Britain (1917-1919)
This article discusses the Women's Party, founded by Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst in November 1917 at a time when Britain was still fighting in World War One. It examines the origins and aims of the Women's Party which, with the slogan ‘Victory, National Security and Progress’, conflated the winning of the war with the women's cause. It is contended that global politics on the world stage as well as local politics at home shaped the agenda o…
Connecting Women's Histories
The articles in this Special Issue are drawn from some of the contributions to a conference held at Sheffield Hallam University, UK, from 29 August to 1 September 2013 titled ‘Women's Histories: the local and the global’. The articles reflect on diverse aspects of the entangled histories of women across the world, mainly, but not exclusively, during the twentieth century. They explore the range of ways in which women's history, international hist…
Researching Women's Lives From A Feminist Perspective
Women's studies is a rapidly expanding field with a tremendous growth in the number of London courses available. As a result of this there has been increasing debate about the nature of feminist research. Can a specifically feminist methodology be identified? Which research methods are most appropriate in feminist work? What is the difference between a feminist approach and other forms of scholarship.; "Researching Women's Lives" explores these i…
Remembering Emily Wilding Davison (1872-1913)
This editorial reflects on the life of Emily Wilding Davison (1872–1913), a suffragette in Edwardian Britain, who died on 8 June 1913 after running on to the race course at the Derby, four days earlier, and trying to grab the reins of the King's horse, Anmer. Rather than seeing her as a suicidal fanatic, it is suggested that she was a sensible, level-headed, religious woman, a risk-taker who probably did not intend to die
What Was Margaret Thatcher's Legacy for Women
This article considers the legacy for women of Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013), Britain's first and to date only woman prime minister. It is suggested that although Thatcher had to struggle against many of the sexist prejudices of her day to achieve her political ambitions, she was no feminist. The hard ladder up which she had climbed was drawn up and not extended to other women. Yet for some women, such as the Spice Girls, she was the pioneer of t…
Women's Activism
Women's Activism brings together twelve innovative contributions from feminist historians from around the world to look at how women have always found ways to challenge or fight inequalities and hierarchies as individuals, in international women's organizations, as political leaders, and in global forums such as the United Nations. The book is divided into three parts. Part one, brings together four essays about organized women's activism across …
Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928), Suffragette Leader and Single Parent in Edwardian Britain
This article explores the life of Emmeline Pankhurst (1858–1928), the suffragette leader in Edwardian Britain, as a single parent, especially in regard to her youngest surviving child, Harry. After her husband’s death in 1898, Emmeline Pankhurst became an impoverished single parent with four dependent children to support—seventeen‐year‐old Christabel, sixteen‐year‐old Sylvia, thirteen‐year‐old Adela, and eight‐year‐old Harry. Five years later she…
International Feminisms
Women's History
Sylvia Pankhurst (1882–1960), suffragette, political activist, artist and writer
In this article, a biographical overview is offered of the life of [Estelle] Sylvia Pankhurst (1882–1960), suffragette, political activist, artist and writer, in order to provide a context for her 1959 proposal for an Ethiopian women’s college, which is published for the first time in this journal. Sylvia, one of five children born in Manchester, England, grew up in a radical household where she not only attended political meetings but was exhort…
Olive Banks (1923–2006)
This Appreciation of Olive Banks (1923–2006) draws upon her memoir published in Women’s History Review, Vol. 8, No. 3, 1999, pp. 401–410, and upon the author’s recollections of and correspondence with her. Born into a solidly working‐class family, Olive Banks overcame the disadvantages of her social class background and gender to become an internationally recognised Professor of Sociology, well known for her contribution to the developing field o…
Olive Banks (1923-2006)
This Appreciation of Olive Banks (1923–2006) draws upon her memoir published in Women’s History Review, Vol. 8, No. 3, 1999, pp. 401–410, and upon the author’s recollections of and correspondence with her. Born into a solidly working‐class family, Olive Banks overcame the disadvantages of her social class background and gender to become an internationally recognised Professor of Sociology, well known for her contribution to the developing field o…
New Frontiers In Women's Studies
The suffragette and women's history
(2005). The suffragette and women's history. Women's History Review: Vol. 14, No. 3-4, pp. 357-364
The december 2004 tsunami and the wider issue of making poverty history
Writing suffragette history
On 10 October 1903 Emmeline Pankhurst founded the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), an organisation that was to become the most notorious of the groupings campaigning for the parliamentary vote for women in Edwardian England. Their militant campaign was led by Emmeline and her eldest daughter, Christabel, the WSPU's Chief Organiser, the two younger Pankhurst daughters, Sylvia and Adela, also becaming active in the movement. While all fou…
Researching Women's Lives From A Feminist Perspective
Women's studies is a rapidly expanding field with a tremendous growth in the number of London courses available. As a result of this there has been increasing debate about the nature of feminist research. Can a specifically feminist methodology be identified? Which research methods are most appropriate in feminist work? What is the difference between a feminist approach and other forms of scholarship.; "Researching Women's Lives" explores these i…
The prison experiences of the suffragettes in edwardian britain
This article focuses in depth upon the prison experiences of the suffragettes in Edwardian Britain and challenges many of the assumptions that have commonly been made about women suffrage prisoners. Thus it is revealed that a number of the prisoners were poor and working-class women and not, as has been too readily assumed, bourgeois women. The assumption too that the women prisoners were single is challenged. Married women and mothers as well as…
Deeds not words, the lives of suffragette teachers
Achievement and Inequality in Education
Deeds, not words
Feminist Theory in Education
Did militancy help or hinder the granting of women's suffrage in Britain
This Viewpoint is one of three discussing the question of whether the ‘militant’ tactics of the suffragettes, as member of the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) were called in Edwardian Britain, helped or hindered the granting of women’s suffrage. In this contribution, it is suggested that militancy embraced a broad range of behaviours, both legal and illegal, that were central to the WSPU campaign and to the granting of the parliamentary…
Representing, Remembering and Rewriting Women's Histories of the First World War
persuasively argued, in the British popular imagination the First World War is associated with mud, barbed wire, the trenches and the Tommy on the Western Front. 1 Perhaps inevitably, therefore, public commemoration of the war has often been dominated by a focus on the men in the armed forces, who risked or lost their lives for causes that at the time may or may not have seemed heroic, noble or simply unavoidable
The Women's Party of Great Britain (1917-1919)
This article discusses the Women's Party, founded by Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst in November 1917 at a time when Britain was still fighting in World War One. It examines the origins and aims of the Women's Party which, with the slogan ‘Victory, National Security and Progress’, conflated the winning of the war with the women's cause. It is contended that global politics on the world stage as well as local politics at home shaped the agenda o…
Remembering Emily Wilding Davison (1872-1913)
This editorial reflects on the life of Emily Wilding Davison (1872–1913), a suffragette in Edwardian Britain, who died on 8 June 1913 after running on to the race course at the Derby, four days earlier, and trying to grab the reins of the King's horse, Anmer. Rather than seeing her as a suicidal fanatic, it is suggested that she was a sensible, level-headed, religious woman, a risk-taker who probably did not intend to die
Sylvia Pankhurst (1882–1960), suffragette, political activist, artist and writer
In this article, a biographical overview is offered of the life of [Estelle] Sylvia Pankhurst (1882–1960), suffragette, political activist, artist and writer, in order to provide a context for her 1959 proposal for an Ethiopian women’s college, which is published for the first time in this journal. Sylvia, one of five children born in Manchester, England, grew up in a radical household where she not only attended political meetings but was exhort…
Olive Banks (1923–2006)
This Appreciation of Olive Banks (1923–2006) draws upon her memoir published in Women’s History Review, Vol. 8, No. 3, 1999, pp. 401–410, and upon the author’s recollections of and correspondence with her. Born into a solidly working‐class family, Olive Banks overcame the disadvantages of her social class background and gender to become an internationally recognised Professor of Sociology, well known for her contribution to the developing field o…
Writing suffragette history
On 10 October 1903 Emmeline Pankhurst founded the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), an organisation that was to become the most notorious of the groupings campaigning for the parliamentary vote for women in Edwardian England. Their militant campaign was led by Emmeline and her eldest daughter, Christabel, the WSPU's Chief Organiser, the two younger Pankhurst daughters, Sylvia and Adela, also becaming active in the movement. While all fou…
Voices and Votes
A Lost Dimension? The political education of women in the suffragette movement in Edwardian Britain
It is argued that present‐day definitions of education that focus upon educational forms, such as schools, further education, universities and adult education, have little relevance for the educational experiences of the majority of women in the past. To illustrate this point, the article explores the ‘education’ of women in a major political grouping in Edwardian Britain, namely the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) which, as a militant …
Bajanellas and Semilinas, Aberdeen University and the education of women 1860–1920
Soul of fire
Shorter Notices
Achievement and Inequality in Education
Gender, Class and Work
An autobiography of Elizabeth Davis
No bleeding heart
Soul of fire
Larissa Reisner
I have done my duty” Florence Nightingale in the Crimean war 1854–56
Partner and i
Hard Lessons
Deeds not words, the lives of suffragette teachers
Women and industrialization, gender at work in nineteenth century England
Bajanellas and Semilinas, Aberdeen University and the education of women 1860–1920
Education and Female Emancipation
A Lost Dimension? The political education of women in the suffragette movement in Edwardian Britain
It is argued that present‐day definitions of education that focus upon educational forms, such as schools, further education, universities and adult education, have little relevance for the educational experiences of the majority of women in the past. To illustrate this point, the article explores the ‘education’ of women in a major political grouping in Edwardian Britain, namely the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) which, as a militant …
Eve and the new Jerusalem, socialism and feminism in the Nineteenth Century
Feminist Theory in Education
Deeds, not words
The prison experiences of the suffragettes in edwardian britain
This article focuses in depth upon the prison experiences of the suffragettes in Edwardian Britain and challenges many of the assumptions that have commonly been made about women suffrage prisoners. Thus it is revealed that a number of the prisoners were poor and working-class women and not, as has been too readily assumed, bourgeois women. The assumption too that the women prisoners were single is challenged. Married women and mothers as well as…
A “pair of ... infernal queens”? 1 a reassessment of the dominant representations of emmeline and christabel pankhurst, first wave feminists in edwardian britain
This article reassesses the dominant representations of two First Wave feminists in Edwardian Britain, Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst, who founded the women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) on 10 October 1903 with the expressed aim of fighting for the right of women to enfranchisement on the same terms as it was, or may be, granted to men. Both women, it is argued, have been represented by historians mainly in a negative light which, at bes…
Women's History and Poststructuralism
Voices and Votes
The historiography of the women's movement in Victorian and Edwardian England
(1996). The historiography of the women's movement in Victorian and Edwardian England: Varieties of contemporary liberal feminist interpretation. The European Legacy: Vol. 1, Fourth International Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, pp. 1052-1057
Women's History
1. From women worthies to poststructuralism? Debate and controversy in women's history in Britain June Purvis 2. Women and industrialization Pat Hudson 3. Women and the family Shani D'Cruze 4. Women and paid work Jane Humphries 5. Women and education Jane McDermid 6. Women and popular literature Penny Tinkler 7. Woman and health Barbara Harrison 8. Woman and sexuality Sheila Jeffreys Woman and Politics June Hannam 10. Ethnicity, race and empire C…
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