The Ascent of Woman: A History of the Suffragette Movement and the Ideas Behind it
- ISBN-10
- 0316725331
- ISBN-13
- 9780316725330
- Category
- Suffrage
- Pages
- 370
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003
- Publisher
- Little Brown
- Author
- Melanie Phillips
Description
The story of the fight to gain the vote for women is about much more than a skirmish around the introduction of universal suffrage. It is a story of social and sexual revolutionary upheaval, and one which has not yet ended. The movement for women's suffrage in the late-19th and early 20th centuries prefigured to a startling extent the controversies which rage today around the role of women.
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