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100 1 $aCowman, Krista,$d1964-
245 10 $aWomen of the right spirit :$bpaid organisers of the women's social and political union (WSPU) 1904-18 /$cKrista Cowman.
260 $aManchester ;$aNew York :$bManchester University Press,$c2011, ©2007.
300 $axi, 248 pages :$billustrations, portraits ;$c22 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aGender in history
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aBecoming an organiser -- 'They wanted me here': organisers and the itinerant life -- 'There was only one member ... when I arrived': working as a district organiser -- Life at headquarters -- 'I urge you not to run the risk of arrest': organisers and militancy -- 'There is [no] person living who, as an organiser, would entirely satisfy some people!' Organisers and dissent -- WSPU organisers and the war.
520 $a"This book is the first investigation into how official organisers built and sustained the national militant campaign of the Women's Social and Political Union between 1904 and 1918. While the overall policy of the Union was devised by an ever-decreasing circle of women, centred around the mother-daughter team of Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst, much of its actual activity, including its more extreme militant actions such as arson, was devised and implemented by these organisers who worked in the provinces and in London.
520 $aWomen of the Right Spirit reveals organisers to be a diverse bunch of women, whose class backgrounds ranged from the aristocratic to the extremely impoverished. It describes the ways in which they were recruited and deployed, and the work they undertook throughout Britain. The exhausting pace of their itinerant life is revealed as well as the occasions when organisers fell out with their employers or their own branches. Taking the story of the WSPU's workers up to the end of the First World War, it considers what directions they took when votes for women became a reality.
520 $aThe book will appeal to academics, postgraduates and undergraduates with an interest in women's history, as well as to a more general readership wishing to understand the extent of support for the votes for women campaign and the mechanisms through which it was organised."--BOOK JACKET.
610 20 $aWomen's Social and Political Union (Great Britain)
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650 0 $aWomen$xSuffrage$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y20th century.
650 6 $aSuffragettes$zGrande-Bretagne$xHistoire.
650 6 $aFemmes$xSuffrage$zGrande-Bretagne$xHistoire$y20e siècle.
610 27 $aWomen's Social and Political Union (Great Britain)$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00599046
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830 0 $aGender in history.
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