Women against the vote : female anti-suffragism in Britain / Julia Bush.

British women who resisted their own enfranchisement were ridiculed by the suffragists and have since been neglected by historians. Yet these women claimed to form a majority of the female public on the eve of the First World War. Julia Bush rediscovers the history of female anti-suffragism in Brita...

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Main Author: Bush, Julia
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
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Table of Contents:
  • An introduction to women's anti-suffragism
  • Maternal reformers and education
  • Maternal reformers and social duty
  • Women writers
  • Imperial ladies
  • The Women's Appeal and after
  • The Women's National Anti-suffrage League
  • Working with men
  • Suffrage, sexuality, and citizenship
  • Anti-suffragists at war
  • A retrospective view of failure.