Pacifists, Patriots and the Vote: The Erosion of Democratic Suffragism in Britain During the First World War - Paperback

by J. Vellacott (Author)

This study traces the resurgence of a conservative suffrage leadership, questions the inevitability of the narrow franchise granted to women in 1918, and suggests that something important was lost, especially to the Labour party and to feminism, when a broad vision of democracy and patriotism became a casualty of war, self-interest and jingoism.

Author Biography

JO VELLACOTT is an independent historian, formerly Assistant Professor of Women's Studies at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.