1st Edition
The Routledge Companion to British Women’s Suffrage
Arranged across four thematic sections, this volume explores the range of developments in suffrage research since the 1990s, combining scholars’ unique insights to offer a much more complete picture of the British suffrage campaign. Each sections provides a thoroughgoing overview of different approaches that have underpinned studies of the British suffrage movement, across disciplines ranging from history and gender studies, to literature, digital humanities and sociology. Sections also explore the various aspects of the material cultures of the suffrage campaign, the variety of suffrage organisations, and the legacies of the movement.
The Routledge Companion to British Women’s Suffrage is an essential handbook for those studying the history, sociology, and politics of the suffrage movement, with a valuable insight into contemporary developments in research.
Volume Introduction: What Was Different About the British Suffrage Campaign?
Part One: Approaches to the Study of British Women’s Suffrage
Introduction
1. Locating the Suffrage Movement in Edwardian Politics.
Ian Packer
2. Looking at British Suffrage from Abroad
Blanca Rodriguez Ruiz
3. Post-Colonial Suffrage Histories: Race and Empire in the British Suffrage Movement
Sumita Mukherjee
4. Life Writing and British Women’s Suffrage
Krista Cowman
5. Local Dimensions to Women’s Suffrage in Britain
June Hannam
6. Social Network Analysis: Mapping Suffragettes’ Political Journeys
Gemma Edwards
7. ‘Revolutionary Potential?’ The Role of Web Mapping and Other Web Technologies in the Study and Democratization of British Suffrage Histories.
Tara Morton with Tim Hollies.
Part Two: The Material Cultures of the British Suffrage Movement
Introduction
8. Art and the Suffrage Campaigns
Zoë Thomas
9. Suffrage News and Print Media
Maria Di Cenzo
10. Purple, White and Green: Selling Militant Women’s Suffrage
Diane Atkinson
11. Keeping Alive the Suffragette Spirit: Curating, Collecting and Displaying Suffrage at the Museum of London
Beverley Cook
12. Collecting Suffrage
Elizabeth Crawford
13. Suffrage Fiction
Ruth Robbins
14. Suffrage on the Edwardian Stage
Naomi Paxton
Part Three: Organisations of the British Suffrage Movement
Introduction
15 . Antecedents to the Women’s Suffrage Campaigns
Sarah Richardson
16. ‘You can't kill the spirit, it's like a mountain, old and strong, it goes on and on.’ A Reassessment of The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies: The View from Manchester
Alison Ronan
17. The Women’s Social and Political Union
June Purvis
18. The Women’s Freedom League and Discourses of Feminism in Great Britain
Claire Eustance
19. Religious Suffrage Societies
Carmen Mangion
20. Women’s Suffrage and Political Parties
Lyndsey Jenkins
21. Occupational Suffrage Societies
Alexandra Hughes-Johnson
22. ‘A Chivalry That Includes and Surpasses Justice.’ Male Support for Women’s Suffrage in Edwardian Britain
Claire Eustance
Part Four: Legacies of the British Suffrage Movement
Introduction
23. Suffrage During the First World War
Angela Smith
24. Taking a View on Suffrage Militancy
Laura E. Nym Mayhall
25. What Difference Did the Vote Make? Suffrage in Parliament, 1919 – 1928. The Representation of the People Act, 1918
Pat Thane
26. International Connections in the British Women’s Suffrage Movement
Krista Cowman
27. Suffrage Centenaries
Mari Takayanagi
28.S uffragette Revisited: An Interview with Sarah Gavron
Biography
Krista Cowman is the Head of the School of History, Politics, and International Relations at the University of Leicester. She has published and broadcast extensively on the suffrage movement for a number of years, and was the historical advisor to the 2015 feature film Suffragette.
