Women's Suffrage in the British Empire: Citizenship, Nation and Race

This edited collection examines the campaign for women's suffrage from an international perspective. Leading international scholars explore the relationship between suffragism and other areas of social and political struggle, and examine the ideological and cultural implications of gendered constructions of 'race', nation and empire. The book includes comprehensive case-studies of Britain, India, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and Palestine.

About the Author

Ian Christopher Fletcher teaches history and women’s studies at Georgia State University in Atlanta. He is co-editor of European Imperialism, 1830–1930 (with Alice L. Conklin) and a member of the Editorial Collective of Radical History Review., Laura E. Nym Mayhall is an assistant professor in the department of History at the Catholic University of America. She is currently completing a book on gender and citizenship in Britain, 1867–1930., Philippa Levine teaches history at the University of Southern California. She is the author of Feminist Lives in Victorian England: Private Roles and Public Commitment and The Amateur and the Professional: Historians, Antiquarians and Archaeologists in Victorian England 1838–1886.