Introduction: raise your banner high! -- Les femmes ennuyøes : bored women in European culture; presaging a Call to Action -- "Not only perfect patriot but perfect woman" : the evocation of Joan of Arc in suffrage England -- Bodica : patriotic woman leader, mother, and resistant -- Allegory in suffrage propaganda : Britannia, liberty, and justice -- Epilogue: from the hammer to the fist : march, process, progress, and protest -- Notes -- Bibliography.
Summary:
"This study examines the domains of public and private space--and the interstices between them--with a focus how women advance in the public arena drawing on the domestic politics of private in their drive for social justice and equality. The author examines the visual culture of first-wave feminists in Edwardian England and feminist developments in France." "-- Provided by publisher.
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