The March of the Women
A Revisionist Analysis of the Campaign for Women's Suffrage, 1866-1914
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19970375 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Martin Pugh (Research Professor in History at Liverpool John Moores University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Pages | 316 |
| Publication date | 2002-01-03 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | The March of the Women (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University PressOxford (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199250226.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W2484199312 |
| ISBN | 9780199250226 |
| Open Library | OL7403809M |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
This book is the first comprehensive study of the campaign for women's suffrage to appear for over thirty years. It challenges the widely-held assumption that the Victorian suffragists underwent a decline during the 1890s, and sets out to prove that, on the contrary, they had effectively won the argument about votes for women by 1900. To support this view the author demonstrates how ineffective Anti-Suffragism was during this period; cites the impetus given to the campaign by the enfranchisement of women in New Zealand and Australia in 1893 and 1902; and crucially examines the shift towards suffragist support by the Conservative Party in the 1890s. The March of the Women also evaluates anew the militant campaign of the Edwardian era, contrasting the sharp divisions over tactics among the London leadership with the more pragmatic approach at grass roots level. It shows how the Pankhursts and the WSPU managed to combine attacking the British Establishment and its values with tapping into it for support and funds; while at the other end of the spectrum the non-militants gathered support for the cause from the working-class and the emergent Labour Party
Aesthetics · Argument (complex analysis) · Art · CITES · Militant · Period (music) · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Suffrage · Australian History and Society · Gender Studies · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Law · Medicine · Europe · Frauenwahlrecht · Geschichte 1866-1914 · History · politics and government · suffrage · Suffragists · Vrouwenkiesrecht · Women
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2002 - 2024 (23) |
| Highly cited | No |