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1. Introduction: Words and Deeds 1. Introduction: Words and Deeds
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2. Women and the Elaboration of Suffragist Philosophies 2. Women and the Elaboration of Suffragist Philosophies
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3. Moving Beyond Mill: Why Women’s Philosophical Engagement Matters 3. Moving Beyond Mill: Why Women’s Philosophical Engagement Matters
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Suffrage as Philosophy: Women Theorizing the Vote in Britain, 1792–1918
Get accessArianne Chernock is a Professor of History and Associate Dean of the Faculty for Social Sciences at Boston University. She is the author of Men and the Making of Modern British Feminism (Stanford UP, 2010) and The Right to Rule and the Rights of Women: Queen Victoria and the Women’s Movement (Cambridge UP, 2019).
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Published:18 July 2023
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Abstract
Suffragists often get treated as theorists or practitioners. Many, however, were both. This chapter examines the centrality of theory, broadly construed, to suffragist and suffragette activity. Specifically, it considers the ways in which philosophy animated British suffragism. For while most women suffragists would not have defined themselves as philosophers (a label they often reserved for men, such as John Stuart Mill), they, too, explored and expanded on arguments that stretched back to the Enlightenment, if not earlier. The chapter highlights some of the arguments they made, including those regarding natural rights and the shared capacity to reason, the uses of history, the relationship between property and citizenship, and sexual difference and the place of women. In doing so, it seeks to (a) place women at the center of intellectual histories of the suffrage movement and (b) stress some of the ideational continuities within the suffrage movement (even as different generations and organizations privileged different concepts and strategies).
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