Title: The ‘Doldrums’ — Women’s Suffrage 1885 to 1904
Abstract: The years between 1885 and 1904 have been described as the stationary stage of the women's suffrage movement, the time when workers 'had to resign themselves to a series of dull and apparently profitless years.'2 After the defeat in 1884, membership in suffrage societies declined sharply. Political stagnation set in: during the 19 years between 1885 and 1904, the House of Commons voted only twice on the question of women's enfranchisement. The suffrage movement was not, however, moribund. In addition to the by now dusty strife over the inclusion of married women in the suffrage, the increasing involvement of women in political campaigns raised new questions about suffragists' party loyalties, which again divided suffragists. In other fields, meanwhile, women continued to break down barriers, with so much success that anti-suffragists began to argue that women did not need the vote to have their interests represented and their grievances redressed.KeywordsMarried WomanCentral CommitteeParty OrganizationLiberal WomanParty LoyaltyThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
Publication Year: 1999
Publication Date: 1999-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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