Professor Sarah Pedersen s.pedersen@rgu.ac.uk
Professor
This article analyses the coverage of the suffrage movement in Scottish newspapers during the First World War. Suspension of militant action and a re-focus on women's war work did not mean the complete disappearance of the suffrage campaign from newspapers. However, while militant and non-militant organisations received press coverage for their war work, there were also stories associating suffragettes with the peace effort' or even conspiracies against the state. Volunteers at the Scottish Women's Hospitals were approvingly described as 'suffragettes' but the appellation retained negative connotations when used about peace campaigners. Brave 'suffragette battalions' were reported to be arriving in France, but at the same time a politician painted the Germans as 'the suffragettes of Europe'. Whilst editors wrote enthusiastically of women's contribution to the war effort, jokes about suffragettes continued to provide light relief. Editorials made the connection between women's war work and achievement of the vote. However, not all readers were happy with this point of view, with some correspondents attacking what they saw as the suffrage organisations' opportunistic use of war work and abandonment of working women.
PEDERSEN, S. 2018. Suffragettes and the Scottish press during the First World War. Women's history review [online], 27(4), pages 534-550. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/09612025.2017.1292620
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Feb 22, 2017 |
Online Publication Date | Feb 22, 2017 |
Publication Date | Aug 31, 2018 |
Deposit Date | Feb 24, 2017 |
Publicly Available Date | Aug 23, 2018 |
Journal | Women's history review |
Print ISSN | 0961-2025 |
Electronic ISSN | 1747-583X |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 27 |
Issue | 4 |
Pages | 534-550 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1080/09612025.2017.1292620 |
Keywords | Suffage movement; Scottish newspapers; First World War; Womens' war work; Working women |
Public URL | http://hdl.handle.net/10059/2187 |
Related Public URLs | http://hdl.handle.net/10059/1553 http://hdl.handle.net/10059/2386 http://hdl.handle.net/10059/141 http://hdl.handle.net/10059/628 http://hdl.handle.net/10059/2588 https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/363089 https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/392183 http://hdl.handle.net/10059/293 http://hdl.handle.net/10059/1177 |
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