One hand tied behind us : the rise of the women's suffrage movement / Jill Liddington and Jill Norris.
By: Liddington, Jill [author].
Contributor(s): Norris, Jill [author].
Material type: BookPublisher: London : Virago, 1978Description: 304 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations, 2 maps, portraits ; 21 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0860680088 (paperback); 086068007X.Other title: 'No cause can be won between dinner and tea, and most of us who were married had to work with one hand tied behind us': the rise of the women's suffrage movement [Cover title].Subject(s): Women -- Suffrage -- England -- Lancashire | Women's rights -- Great Britain | Feminism -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century | Feminism -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th centuryDDC classification: 324.62Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending | 324.62 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00053883 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 292-296) and index.
Part 1: Working Women -- Who were the radical suffragists? -- Daily life for working women -- Nineteenth-century Lancashire -- Women's suffrage in Manchester -- Weavers and winders -- Jobs outside the mill -- Political apprenticeship -- Women and socialism -- Part 2: The Campaign -- Textile workers and the suffrage campaign -- The Pankhursts in Manchester -- The suffrage movement's split -- Working women as suffragists -- The debate with the Labour Party -- What did you do in the Great War?
"The north of England was the cradle of the suffrage movement: here women worked long hours in factories and mills, struggled against poverty and hardship at home, and, at the turn of the century, fought not only for the vote but for a wide range of women's rights." -- Back cover.