The Ascent Of Woman
A History of the Suffragette Movement
$44.30
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
19 December 2004
Summary
The story of the fight to gain the vote for women is about much more than a peripheral if picturesque skirmish around the introduction of universal suffrage. It is an explosive story of social and sexual revolutionary upheaval, and one which has not yet ended. The movement for women’s suffrage in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries prefigured to a startling extent the controversies which rage today around the role of women. Far from the stereotype of a uniform body of women chai…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349116600 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0349116601 |
| Author: | Melanie Phillips |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Abacus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 19 December 2004 |
| Weight: | 276g |
| Dimensions: | 133mm x 201mm x 27mm |
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A gripping and rather magnificent new book - THE TIMES
A richly detailed history. - DAILY TELEGRAPHThis highly enjoyable history gives an excellent sense of the vivid feuds, ideological divides and disputes which fractured the enlivened the progressive Victorian feminist movement - SUNDAY TELEGRAPH[A book] shot through with Phillip s’ customary clariy… [she] shows beautifully that the vote was really symbolic of a far wider range of issues on which women were struggling to find a public voice - EVENING STANDARDAbout The Author
Melanie Phillips
Melanie Phillips is a DAILY MAIL and former SUNDAY TIMES columnist and broadcaster who is a regular panellist on Radio 4’s THE MORAL MAZE.
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