Rise Up, Women!: The Militant Campaign Of The Women's Social And Political Union, 1903-1914 Paperback

India

Andrew Rosen

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the formidable organization which led this campaign: the Women's Social and Political Union.With the use of previously unpublished correspondence of Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst, her colleagues and such political leaders as Asquith, Balfour and Lloyd George, the author views the development of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.

1138008117

9781138008113

English

Taylor & Francis Ltd

05 Jul 2014

He has documented the militant period more closely than anyone has yet done, and his account is detailed, clear and balanced... As a guide through the political scene Rosen is superbly equipped...' Claire Tomalin, Observer