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Shame: A Transnational History Of Women Policing Women, Sharon Crozier-De Rosa
Shame: A Transnational History Of Women Policing Women, Sharon Crozier-De Rosa
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
From the 1880s to the 1910s, novelist Marie Corelli reigned as ‘Queen of the Bestsellers’, far outselling any fellow authors of her day. As I read through her works to complete my Ph.D. on bestselling fiction and a history of women’s emotions, I could not help but be disturbed by the glaring anti-feminist sentiment infusing her writing. Corelli was certainly no supporter of votes for women, but neither, it was apparent, was she a proponent of advances in women’s education and employment.
History And The Militant Woman, Sharon Crozier-De Rosa
History And The Militant Woman, Sharon Crozier-De Rosa
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
In Britain in 1909, militant suffragist Theresa Garnett publicly whipped politician Winston Churchill with a riding switch saying, ‘Take that, in the name of the insulted women of England’. In an inversion of gendered norms, the male Churchill was reported in the feminist paper, Votes for Women, as pale and afraid, and the female Garnett as forceful and courageous. She had undertaken ‘a piece of cool daring’. Churchill and his ‘cowardly’ government would not accept deputations of suffragists. They endorsed state violence against campaigning feminists. This man, Votes for Women declared, was a ‘statesman who has dishonoured British statesmanship by …