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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes[1] Bachelors Women Raid: ‘battle’ at club function, Western Morning News, 20 February 1937.[2] Girls Rally for Attack: bachelors warned at Plymouth, Western Morning News, 24 February 1937.[3] Spinster Recants: Ilfracombe wedding ends anti-bachelor feud, Western Morning News, 19 May 1938.[4] For the earlier incursions into this debate, see Joanna Alberti (1989) Beyond Suffrage: feminists in war and peace, 1914–1928 (New York: St Martin's Press); Brian Harrison (1987) Prudent Revolutionaries: portraits of British feminists between the wars (Oxford: Clarendon Press); Susan Kinglsey Kent (1993) Making Peace: the reconstruction of gender in interwar Britain (Princeton: Princeton University Press); Cheryl Law (1997) Suffrage and Power: the women's movement 1918–1928 (London: I.B. Tauris); Martin Pugh (1999) Women and the Women's Movement in Britain, 1914–1999 (Basingstoke: Macmillan); Dale Spender (1983) There's Always Been a Women's Movement this Century (London: Pandora) and (1984) Time and Tide Wait for No Man (London: Pandora).[5] A recent contribution to this debate is (2013) Julie V. Gottlieb & Richard Toye (Eds) The Aftermath of Suffrage: women, gender and politics, 1918–1945 (Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan).[6] Many of the contributors took part in an international conference on ‘The Aftermath of Suffrage: what happened after the vote was won?’ at the University of Sheffield in June 2011

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