Alexandra Hughes-Johnson; Lyndsey Jenkins sku-759829425

Alexandra Hughes-Johnson; Lyndsey Jenkins examine the early twentieth-century movement for women's suffrage in the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth. This All Books hardcover, sku-759829425, considers how the movement challenged the UK constitution more substantially than any issue since 1832 and sought to change definitions of citizenship and power.

The collection connects suffrage campaigns with the Irish question, the decline of the British Empire, the Great War and demands for workers' rights. It pays particular attention to class and Empire, including the effects of women's rights campaigns on attitudes toward motherhood, the radical birth-strike movement and growing communist sympathies in working-class communities in Britain and beyond.