Sex and Suffrage in Britain, 1860-1914

Deborah Gorham, Susan Kingsley Kent

The American Historical Review · 1988 · 164 citations · 0 references

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Abstract

Women's quest for the vote Kent argues, was indissolubly linked with other feminist demands for reform which would overturn the cultural constructions of masculinity and femininity and determined their powerlessness in both public and private.