About the Author

Laura E. Nym Mayhall teaches in the Department of History at the Catholic University of America.

Reviews

...[makes] excellent use of archival sources and the extensive secondary literature. Jill Liddington, History Workshop Journal ...a timely and convincing book, drawing fruitfully on current research in political theory and suffrage history...opens up new and interesting perspectives. Janet Howarth, English Historical Review There are some tantalising statements here about how citizenship might be configured in this new environment, which should provide themes for further research and discussion. Anyone embarking on such a task can use, as a starting point, the excellent references and bibliography provided in the book. June Hannam, University of the West of England Just when it seemed that this field had exhausted itself in terms of both evidence and paradigms, Mayhall's book recaptures suffrage history not just for politics, but for Victorian and Edwardian history broadly conceived Antoinette Burton, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign By exploring the very different political ideas, especially those concerning citizenship, and the very different practices evident amongst the several different groups that made up the militant suffrage movement, Laura Mayhall's important work provides a quite new understanding of the phenomenon of militancy--one that will fundamentally change how the history of British feminism is understood. Barbara Caine, Monash University