The Scottish suffragettes and the press.

Pedersen, Sarah

Abstract

This work approaches the Scottish women's suffrage campaign from the point of view of the popular press. It investigates how the press engaged with the women's suffrage movement; how suffragettes were portrayed in newspapers; and how different groups attempted to use the press to get their message into the public sphere. Scottish suffrage campaigners acknowledged the need for press coverage from the start of the campaign in the 1870s, but the arrival of the militant suffragettes completely transformed newspaper coverage. The Scottish newspapers were particularly interested in suffragette activities during local by-elections and their hounding of local anti-suffrage MPs such as Herbert Asquith. The book also investigates the impact of the First World War on the movement. The file for this record represents only a sample chapter from the whole work, which is available for purchase from the publisher.

Citation

PEDERSEN, S. 2017. The Scottish suffragettes and the press. London: Palgrave Macmillan [online]. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53834-5

• Book Type: Monograph
• Online Publication Date: Jul 2, 2017
• Publication Date: Dec 31, 2017
• Deposit Date: Jun 21, 2017
• Publicly Available Date: Jul 3, 2020
• Publisher: Springer
• Pages: 1-205
• Series Title: Palgrave studies in the history of the media
• ISBN: 9781137538338
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53834-5
• Keywords: Suffragettes; Women's suffrage; Press representations of women; Women in mass media
• Public URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10059/2386
• Related Public URLs: http://hdl.handle.net/10059/1553; http://hdl.handle.net/10059/2187; 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
• Contract Date: Jun 21, 2017