The British women's suffrage movement and the ancient constitution, 1867-1909
The British women's suffrage movement and the ancient constitution
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4557403 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joel Barnes (0000-0002-6113-7620, The University of Melbourne, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 91 |
| Issue | 253 |
| Pages | 505-527 |
| Publication date | 2018-08-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Historical Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0950-3471 • E-ISSN: 1468-2281 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1468-2281.12234 |
| OpenAlex | W2886280706 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
Between the second Reform Act and the rise of Edwardian suffragette militancy, a critique of women's political exclusion based on a re-reading of British constitutional history was developed first by constitutional lawyers and later by a small but influential network of suffragist historian-activists. These scholars came to view women's enfranchisement not as an innovation but as the restitution of lost rights. This article examines these legal-historical arguments and the alternative narrative of constitutional history that emerged out of them, situating these developments within the lineage of ancient constitutionalist discourse going back to the 'common-law mind' of the early seventeenth century
Aesthetics · Art · Constitution · Constitutionalism · Democracy · Legal history · Literature · Narrative · Political history · Political science · Politics · Reform movement · Sociology · Suffrage · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · History · Law · Religion, Gender, and Enlightenment
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2024 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |