Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Rise Up, Women!: The Militant Campaign of the Women's Social and Political Union, 1903-1914

Rise Up, Women!: The Militant Campaign of the Women's Social and Political Union, 1903-1914

Rosen, Andrew

Paperback

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Women's History

General ReferenceGeneral Political ScienceGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1138008117
ISBN13: 9781138008113
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jul 4 2014
Pages: 344
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

The suffragette movement shattered the domestic tranquillity of Edwardian England. This book is an original and searching study of the formidable organization which led this campaign: the Women's Social and Political Union.

With the use of previously unpublished correspondence of Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst, her colleagues and such political leaders as Asquith, Balfour and Lloyd George, the author views the development of ever more extreme and violent forms of militancy not as a series of amusing exploits and incidents but as the carefully calculated political strategy the suffragettes intended it to be. He examines the reasons for the remarkable effectiveness of militant tactics in making women's enfranchisement a political issue of central importance, and shows why militancy failed to secure this right prior to the outbreak of war in August 1914. He assesses, too, the influence of the vast social and political changes wrought by the war on the ultimate success of the campaign in 1918.

1 different editions

Also available

Also in

General Political Science

View All