The Routledge Companion to British Women’s Suffrage: (Routledge Companions)

The suffrage movement remains the largest autonomous political movement of women in British history. The Routledge Companion to British Women’s Suffrage provides a comprehensive survey of state-of-the-art contemporary scholarship on this movement. Arranged across four thematic sections, this volume explores the range of developments in suffrage research since the 1990s, combining a range of scholars’ unique insights to offer a much more complete picture of the British suffrage campaign. Each section 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.

Table of Contents:
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 2. Looking at British Suffrage from Abroad 3. Post-Colonial Suffrage Histories: Race and Empire in the British Suffrage Movement 4. Life Writing and British Women’s Suffrage 5. Local Dimensions to Women’s Suffrage in Britain 6. Social Network Analysis: Mapping Suffragettes’ Political Journeys 7. ‘Revolutionary Potential?’ The Role of Web Mapping and Other Web Technologies in the Study and Democratization of British Suffrage Histories Part Two: The Material Cultures of the British Suffrage Movement Introduction 8. Art and the Suffrage Campaigns 9. Suffrage News and Print Media 10. Purple, White and Green: Selling Militant Women’s Suffrage 11. Keeping Alive the Suffragette Spirit: Curating, Collecting and Displaying Suffrage at the Museum of London 12. Collecting Suffrage 13. Suffrage Fiction 14. Suffrage on the Edwardian Stage Part Three: Organisations of the British Suffrage Movement Introduction 15 . Antecedents to the Women’s Suffrage Campaigns 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 17. The Women’s Social and Political Union 18. The Women’s Freedom League and Discourses of Feminism in Great Britain 19. Religious Suffrage Societies 20. Women’s Suffrage and Political Parties 21. Occupational Suffrage Societies 22. ‘A Chivalry That Includes and Surpasses Justice.’ Male Support for Women’s Suffrage in Edwardian Britain Part Four: Legacies of the British Suffrage Movement Introduction 23. Suffrage During the First World War 24. Taking a View on Suffrage Militancy 25. What Difference Did the Vote Make? Suffrage in Parliament, 1919 – 1928. The Representation of the People Act, 1918 26. International Connections in the British Women’s Suffrage Movement 27. Suffrage Centenaries 28. Suffragette Revisited: An Interview with Sarah Gavron

About the Author :
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.