From Suffrage to Internationalism

The Political Evolution of Three British Feminists, 1908-1939

Beryl Haslam (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

250 Seiten

1999
Peter Lang Publishing Inc (Verlag)
978-0-8204-2566-5 (ISBN)

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The British feminists Kathleen Courtney, Catherine Marshall, and Helena Swanwick played leading roles in two of the most significant movements of the twentieth century: the fight for the emancipation of women and the struggle for peace and justice among nations. This book describes the developing political consciousness of these women and demonstrates how they helped to organize British women to lobby for their enfranchisement during the Edwardian and prewar periods and how, throughout the Great War, they defended civil liberties and campaigned for a negotiated peace and a system of international government. After the war, they were dismayed by the failure of the Treaty of Versailles to implement the principles of Wilsonian internationalism and joined with others to educate the public in these principles as a means of securing a permanent peace. This book documents how they worked for revision of the peace treaty, disarmament, and a strong League of Nations. The author argues that throughout their careers, the ideas and activism of these women were guided by a belief in liberty, equality and justice, as well as the necessity of applying reason to gender relations and international politics.

The Author: Beryl Haslam was born in Manchester, England, and read for her B.A. in History at the University of Bristol. After moving to Canada, she completed her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario. She has taught twentieth-century British history and is currently working with the Bertrand Russell Editorial Project at McMaster University. Dr. Haslam is a coeditor of Pacifism and Revolution, 1916-1918 (1995) and Uncertain Paths to Freedom: Russia and China, 1919-1922 (in press), volumes in the series, The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell.

Reihe/Serie	American University Studies ; 168
Zusatzinfo	ports.
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 230 mm
Gewicht	560 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	0-8204-2566-4 / 0820425664
ISBN-13	978-0-8204-2566-5 / 9780820425665
Zustand	Neuware