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This article discusses the Women's Party, founded by Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst in November 1917 at a time when Britain was still fighting in World War One. It examines the origins and aims of the Women's Party which, with the slogan 'Victory, National Security and Progress', conflated the winning of the war with the women's cause. It is contended that global politics on the world stage as well as local politics at home shaped the agenda of the Women's Party in many differing ways.

"This book brings together twelve chapters from feminist historians from around the world to offer new perspectives on aspects of the campaign for women's suffrage in Britain. It signals how the women's suffrage campaign in Britain embraced both national and global aspects. Chapters deal with issues around strategies, social class, employment, religion, nationalism, empire and race and explore complex issues about women's roles in campaigning for their democratic right to the parliamentary vote. Offering a broad view of the British women's suffrage movement, this is the ideal volume for students of women's and political history in both its national and international contexts"--

This book is centered on the history of the girl from the medieval period through to the early twenty-first century. Authored by an international team of scholars, the volume explores the transition from adolescent girlhood to young womanhood, the formation and education of girls in the home and in school, and paid work undertaken by girls in different parts of the world and at different times. It highlights the value of a comparative approach to the history of the girl, as the contributors point to shared attitudes to girlhood and the similarity of the experiences of girls in workplaces across the world. Contributions to the volume also emphasise the central role of girls in the global economy, from their participation in the textile industry in the eighteenth century, through to the migration of girls to urban centres in twentieth-century Africa and China.

Sexuality and sexual politics have been much debated over the last 20 years and feminists, in particular, have been responsible for politicising the debate, pointing out how something which is usually regarded as private and personal is, in fact, a public and political issue. This text illustrates the diversity and excitement of debates about sexuality in women's studies and feminism today, and points to new paths for feminist analysis, thinking and action. In particular, heterosexuality can no longer be taken for granted and must, along with other forms of sexuality, be explicitly addressed

This text reveals the diversities which continue to shape women's beliefs and experiences. It includes debates on women and nationalisms, women and social policy, sexuality, black studies and ethnic studies, women and education, women and cultural production and women's studies and gender studies

Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Notes on contributors -- 1 Introduction: gender and gender relations in German history -- 2 Gender norms and their enforcement in early modern Germany -- 3 The public body: policing abortion in early modern Germany -- 4 Religious dissent and the roots of German feminism -- 5 Companionship and conflict: the negotiation of marriage relations in the nineteenth century -- 6 The sick warrior's sister: nursing during the First World War -- 7 Wise women, wise men and abortion in the Weimar Republic: gender, class and medicine -- 8 National Socialist policies towards female homosexuality -- 9 Driving the message home: Nazi propaganda in the private sphere -- 10 Labours of consumption: gendered consumers in post-war East and West German reconstruction -- Bibliography -- Index

The making of suffrage history / Sandra Stanley Holton -- The ladies of British sufragism / Christine Bolt -- Who is Lily Maxwell? Women's suffrage and Manchester politics, 1866-1867 / Jane Rendall -- Mrs Henry Fawcett (1847-1929): the widow as a problem in feminist biography / Janet Howarth -- Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928) and votes for women / June Purvis -- 'Deeds, not words': daily life in the women's social and political union in Edwardian Britain / June Purvis -- Militancy, masochism or martyrdom? The public and private prisons of Constance Lytton / Marie Mulvey-Roberts --"Dare to be free!': the Women's Freedom League and its legacy / Hilary Frances -- Women teachers and the suffrage campaign: arguments for professional equality / Alison Oram -- 'I had not been to London': women's suffrage, a view from the regions / June Hammam -- Jennie Baines: suffrage and an Australian connection / Judith Smart -- 'A symbol and a key': the suffrage movement in Britain, 1918-1928 / Johanna Alberti.

Women's Activism brings together twelve innovative contributions from feminist historians from around the world to look at how women have always found ways to challenge or fight inequalities and hierarchies as individuals, in international women's organizations, as political leaders, and in global forums such as the United Nations.The book is divided into three parts. Part one, brings together four essays about organized women's activism across borders. The chapters in part two focus on the variety of women's activism and explore women's activism in different national and political contexts. A