One Hand Tied Behind Us : The Rise of the Women's Suffrage Movement,9781854891105

One Hand Tied Behind Us : The Rise of the Women's Suffrage Movement

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Edition: 3rd
ISBN13: 9781854891105
ISBN10: 1854891103
Format: Trade Book
Pub. Date: 2000-07-01
Publisher(s): Rivers Oram Pr
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Summary

At factory gates and cottage doors, co-operative guilds and trade union branches, the radical suffragists of turn-of-the-century Britain took their message to women at the grassroots level in order to advance demands for equal pay, educational opportunities, better birth control, child allowances, and the right to work. Their strength lay in their democratic approach: opposed to violence, they felt that the vote was the key to wider rights for women.

One Hand Tied Behind Us draws from a wealth of unpublished material, local newspaper accounts. diaries, handwritten minute books, forgotten biographies, and interviews. It creates a vivid and moving portrait of the women who, almost 100 years ago, envisaged freedoms that are not secure even today. Widely acclaimed, it has become a suffrage classic, and to mark its twenty-first anniversary, Rivers Oram presents this revised edition with a new introduction by Jill Liddington.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations
vi
Chronology vii
Abbreviations ix
Acknowledgements x
Preface to the 2000 edition xii
Introduction to the first edition 1(9)
PART 1: WORKING WOMEN
Who were the radical suffragists?
10(10)
Daily life for working women
20(19)
Nineteenth-century Lancashire
39(19)
Women's suffrage in Manchester
58(20)
Weavers and winders
78(19)
Jobs outside the mill
97(11)
Political apprenticeship
108(14)
Women and socialism
122(20)
PART 2: THE CAMPAIGN
Textile workers and the suffrage campaign
142(25)
The Pankhursts in Manchester
167(28)
The suffrage movement's split
195(21)
Working women as suffragists
216(23)
The debate with the Labour Party
239(25)
What did you do in the Great War?
264(13)
Notes 277(32)
Biographies 309(6)
Bibliography 315(7)
Index 322

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