Organizing for Citizenship and Democracy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4494540 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jill Liddington (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 65 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 259-265 |
| Publication date | 2008-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History Workshop Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1363-3554 • E-ISSN: 1477-4569 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/hwj/dbn010 |
| OpenAlex | W1993402289 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
Is there more to be said about the militant women's suffrage movement in Britain? Some readers might feel dubious. After all, there has recently been a slew of Pankhurst biographies – notably Martin Pugh's The Pankhursts (2001), plus two in 2002 both entitled Emmeline Pankhurst, one by June Purvis and the other by Paula Bartley.1 Delving a generation further back, Antonia Raeburn's Militant Suffragettes (1973) included interviews with many surviving elderly suffragettes shortly before they died, while Andrew Rosen's Rise Up, Women! (1974) offered useful tabulations including age of women on arrest (so often under thirty) and arson targets (date, location, object, estimated value). Meanwhile, Virago Press republished Sylvia Pankhurst's 1931 The Suffragette Movement (1977), upon which the BBC had drawn heavily for its television drama series, Shoulder to Shoulder (1974).2 Alongside ran more articles on militancy than you could shake a stick at – including most...
Art · Art history · Citizenship · Democracy · Drama · Literature · Management · Militant · Political science · Politics · ROWE · Suffrage · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · History · Law
| Highly cited | No |
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