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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Suffragette"”.
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Embroidering and the Body Under Threat: Suffragette Embroidered Cloths Worked in Holloway Prison, 1911-1912
Between 1911 and 1912 hundreds of suffragettes were incarcerated in Holloway Prison for participating in the window breaking campaign. Denied political status, some suffragettes used the hunger strike as a political tool and were forcibly fed. Whilst in prison some of the women hand-embroidered …
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Bodies at their Limits: Rethinking Political Violence Through Women’s Hunger Strikes
… strikes conducted by members of the British suffragette movement between 1909-1914 and the 2018 hunger strike at Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre (IRC) – this thesis makes three arguments regarding how women’s hunger strikes challenge theories of political violence centred around the …
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"""A New Heaven and Earth"": Feminism, Religion and the Politics of Identity in Britain, 1901-1918"
… Chapter Three examines suffragist and suffragettes' appropriation of Christian imagery, Protestant terminology, and evangelical styles to frame their demands for the vote. Chapters Four and Five explore the denominational and theological frameworks shaping suffragist and suffragette …
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WORDS AS DEEDS: GENDER AND FEMINIST DISCOURSE IN BRITISH SUFFRAGE PERIODICALS (1907-14)
… help for its campaign, despite the fact that the Suffragettes’ motto was ‘deeds, not words’. The publication of their own periodicals, aimed at a new type of female readership, was significant, as it led to the creation of a true counter-discourse that also meant to overcome biased views on the …
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Medea in Victorian Women's Poetry
… tale of Medea was given new life by the suffragette movement. As Victorians began to question women’s rights and capabilities, Medea’s story resurfaced as a cautionary tale showing the damage that occurs when women repress and shape their identities to fit uncompromising social …
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Green Herrings in a Yellow Room: A Counter Production of The Yellow Wallpaper
… and our narrator. Though known as an author and suffragette, Charlotte was first a designer. As a student in the inaugural class of the Rhode Island School of Design, she studied the arts just miles from the ports where the green pigment began its early residence. Her writing draws from arsenic …
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Glasgow's Red Clydeside and the politics of poetry
… focus on the political poetry of the striker and suffragette, Helen Crawfurd. Following this, I investigate the poetry of Glasgow’s radical Proletarian Schools and their schoolmaster Tom Anderson, arguing that poetry provided an important educational tool. Finally, the thesis ends with an …
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Within their sphere? Women's correspondence to Aberdeen daily newspapers, 1900-1918.
… century Britain. However, even the most militant suffragette justified her demand for a vote by emphasising woman's difference from man. Such correspondents preferred to enlarge the woman's sphere to include social commentary and electoral privilege rather than step outside it altogether. The …