Sex and Suffrage in Britain, 1860-1914
Kent, Susan Kingsley![Sex and Suffrage in Britain, 1860-1914](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/196/19663156/CHSBZCOP0319663156.jpg)
Although other historians have viewed the suffrage movement as aimed at exclusively political ends, she argues that such a categorization ignores many of the most compelling reasons why thousands of middle and upper-class women risked ostracism, obloquy, and, often, physical harm in the pursuit of the right to vote and why their efforts met with such intense opposition. The alliance of respectable" middle-class women with prostitutes, the atta...