Women's Suffrage in Word, Image, Music, Stage and Screen: The Making of a Movement

Women's Suffrage in Word, Image, Music, Stage and Screen: The Making of a Movement
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Published
14 July 2021
Pages
288
ISBN
9780367361983

Women’s Suffrage in Word, Image, Music, Stage and Screen: The Making of a Movement

This collection of essays explores the myriad ways in which the women’s suffrage movement in Britain in the nineteenth century and twentieth century engaged with and was expressed through literature, art and craft, music, drama and cinema.

Uniquely, this anthology places developments in the constituent arts side by side, and in dialogue, rather than focusing on a single field in isolation. In so doing, it illustrates how creative endeavours in different artforms converged in support of women’s suffrage. Topics encompassed range from the artistic output of such household names as Sylvia Pankhurst and Ethel Smyth, to the recent feature film Suffragette. It also brings to light under-represented figures and neglected works related to the suffrage movement. A wide variety of material is explored, from poems, diaries and newspapers to posters, dress and artefacts to songs, opera, plays and film.

Published in the wake of the centenary of many women receiving the parliamentary vote in the UK, this book will appeal to scholars, undergraduate and graduate students, and members of the public interested in the broad areas of women’s history and the women’s suffrage movement, as well as across the arts disciplines.

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