Women's Suffrage in the British Empire

Abstract

Introduction I. Re-thinking suffrage discourse The South African War and the origins of suffrage militancy in Britain, 1899-1902 Laura E. Nym Mayhall 'States of Injury': Josephine Butler on slavery, citizenship, and the Boer War Antoinette Burton 'Racial Poison': Drink, male vice, and degeneration in first-wave feminism Mariana Valverde Modernity and mother-heartedness: Spirituality and religious meaning in Australian women's suffrage and citizenship movements, 1890s-1920s Judith Smart White maternity and black infancy: the rhetoric of race in the South African women's suffrage movement, 1895-1926 Pamela Scully Local feminisms in an imperial state An experiment in the social laboratory? Suffrage, national identity, and mythologies of race in New Zealand in the 1890s Raewyn Dalziel 'Women of the nations, unite!': Transnational suffragism in the United Kingdom, 1912-1914 Ian Christopher Fletcher 'Pioneering representatives of the Hebrew people': International campaigns of the Palestinian Jewish Women's Equal Rights Association, 1918-1948 Ruth Abrams Nation, tradition, and rights: the indigenous feminism of the Palestinian Women's Movement, 1929-1948 Ellen Fleischmann III. Tracking the transnational British suffragists and Iranian women, 1906-1911 Mansour Bonakdarien 'Making fresh Britains across the seas': Imperial authority and anti-feminism in Rhodesia Donal Lowry Competing transnational representations of the 1930s Indian franchise question Catherine Candy Australian women's metropolitan activism: From suffrage, to imperial vanguard, to commonwealth feminism Angela Woolacott Suffragism and internationalism: the enfranchisement of British and Indian women under an imperial state Mrinalina Sinha