The campaign for women's suffrage
2. Evaluate the feminist philosophy of the campaigners for female suffrage.
3. How fundamental were the differences between the constitutionalists and the militants?
4. Assess the impact of the suffrage movement on British politics and society.
Core Reading
Holton, Sandra Stanley. Feminism and Democracy
Levine, Philippa. Victorian Feminism, ch.3
Rendall, Jane. 'John Stuart Mill, Liberal Politics, and the Movements for Women's Suffrage, 1865-1873' in Vickery, Amanda (ed), Women, Privilege and Power: British Politics, 1750 to the Present
John Stuart Mill
Annas, Julia. 'Mill and the Subjection of Women', Philosophy (1977)
Bryson, V. Feminist Political Theory
Caine, Barbara. Victorian Feminists, ch. 2
Caine, Barbara. 'J. S. Mill and the English Women's Movement', Historical Studies, 18 (1978)
Coole, Diana. Women in Political Theory, ch. 6
Holcombe, Lee. Wives and Property: Reform of the Married Women's Property Law in Nineteenth-Century England, chs. 6, 7
Rendall, Jane. The Origins of Modern Feminism
Rossi, A. S. Essays on Sex Equality
Tulloch, Gail. Mill and Sexual Equality
Women's Suffrage
Harrison, Brian. Separate Spheres: The Opposition to Women's Suffrage in Britain, ch. 10
John, Angela (ed), The Men's Share
Liddington, Jill.and Norris, Jill. One Hand Tied Behind Us
Pugh, Martin. Women and the Women's Movement in Britain, pp. 34-42
Rendall, Jane. 'Citizenship, Culture and Civilisation: The Languages of British Suffragists' in Nolan and Daley (eds), Suffrage and Beyond
Rover, C. Women's Suffrage and Party Politics in Britain
Heilman A. 'Words as Deeds: Debates and Narratives in Women's Suffrage', Journal of Women's History (2000)
Hirshfield, C. 'Fractured Faith: Liberal Party Women and the Suffrage Issue in Britain, 1892-1914', Gender and History, 2, 2 (1990)
Holton, Sandra Stanley. 'In Sorrowful Wrath' in Smith, H. L. (ed), British Feminism in the Twentieth Century
John, Angela V. 'The Privilege of Power: Suffrage Women and the Issue of Men's Support' in Vickery (ed), Women, Privilege and Power
Franklin, C. 'Marketing Edwardian Feminism', Women's History Review, 11, 4 (2002)
Law, C. 'Votes for Women', Modern History Review, 13, 3 (2002)
Lawrence, Jon. ' Contesting the Male Polity: The Suffragettes and the Politics of Disruption in Edwardian Britain' in Vickery (ed), Women, Privilege and Power
Strachey, Ray. The Cause, chs. 14-19
Purvis, June and Holton, Sandra Stanley (eds), Votes for Women
Joannou, Maroula and Purvis, June (eds), The Women's Suffrage Movement: New Feminist Perspectives
Purvis, June (ed), Women's History: Britain, 1850-1945, chs. 9, 11
Vicinus, Martha. Independent Women