Suffrage discourse in Britain during the first World War / Angela K. Smith
- Bib ID:
- 3410666
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Smith, Angela K
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- Description:
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- Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, c2005
- 153 p. ; 23 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0754639517
- Summary:
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"In the first in-depth study of the relationship between the suffrage campaign in Britain and World War I, Angela K. Smith explores the links between these two defining moments of the early twentieth century. Although the Suffrage Movement was divided by the outbreaks of war, many women continued to campaign for the vote, producing a wide variety of fictional and nonfictional 'suffrage texts'. Whether the writing of these women demonstrated their patriotism, pacifism, or ambivalence, it formed an integral part of their political responses to the war. Through textual/literary analysis of Suffrage magazines, wartime diaries, and a range of topical novels, Smith explores these responses within historical, social, and cultural contexts to understand the impact of the war on the success of the campaign in 1918 and the consequences for the years that followed."--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- 1. Writing suffrage before 1914
- 2. Patriotic suffragism : Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst and the WSPU
- 3. A different view : Sylvia Pankhurst and the East End
- 4. The pacifist voice
- 5. Suffragists and war work
- 6. 'That silly suffrage' : the paradox of the First World War
- 7. 'The empowering of individuals' : feminism, art and war in The egoist
- 8. Winning the peace.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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