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“Women’s National Press Club, 1919-1970,” in Women’s Press Organizations, 1881-1999
Maurine H. Beasley. Women's Press Organizations, 1881-1990. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2000. (pp. 282-290.)
Era: Post-Suffrage Era | Media: Book Chapter, Book-Academic, Book-Non-Fiction
In chapter 34 of Women’s Press Organizations, 1881-1990 (edited by Elizabeth V. Burt), Maurine H. Beasley discusses the founding of the Women’s National Press Club in 1919. The suffrage campaign led […] Read More
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Film: “Suffragette,” 2015
Suffragette. Director: Sarah Gavron. Performer: Meryl Streep, Carey Mulligan. Ruby Films, 2015.
Era: Post-Suffrage Era | Media: Documentary Film, Film
Suffragette is a 2015 historical drama set in the suffrage era in the UK: In early 20th-century Britain, the growing suffragette movement forever changes the life of working wife and […] Read More
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“Those Knights of the Pen and Pencil”: Women Journalists and Cultural Leadership of the Women’s Movement in Australia and the United States
Diane Kirkby. Labour History: A Journal of Labour and Social History. Vol. 104, May 2013, pp. 81-100.
Era: Post-Suffrage Era | Media: Academic Paper
An abstract and information on how to access this 2013 article are available from JSTOR, which local and academic libraries are likely to have as a resource. You can check WorldCat to […] Read More
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Op-Ed: The Suffragettes Were Rebels, Certainly, But Not Slaves
Ana Stevenson. "The Suffragettes were Rebels, Certainly, but not Slaves," The Conversation, October 8, 2015.
Era: Post-Suffrage Era | Media: Commentary, Essay, Film, Video
This editorial by Dr. Ana Stevenson, published on The Conversation, discusses the media controversy surrounding the 2015 film Suffragette and its use of the Emmeline Pankhurst quote, “I’d rather be a rebel than a […] Read More
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Suffrage and Beyond: International Feminist Perspectives
Caroline Daley & Melanie Nolan (Eds). Suffrage and Beyond: International Feminist Perspectives. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1994.
Era: Post-Suffrage Era | Media: Book-Academic
Suffrage and Beyond: International Feminist Perspectives examine the evolution of women’s women’s suffrage worldwide, using collected works of scholars from Australia and New Zealand. All the papers in this book were […] Read More
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The Spectacle of Women: Imagery of the Suffrage Campaign 1907-1914
Lisa Tickner. The Spectacle of Women: Imagery of the Suffrage Campaign 1907-1914. London: Chatto & Windus, 1987.
Era: Post-Suffrage Era | Media: Book-Academic, Book-Non-Fiction, Pageants and Parades, Postcards, Posters
Deemed too artistic for political history, too political for art history, the visual history of the campaign for women’s suffrage in Britain has long been neglected. In this comprehensive and […] Read More