{"product_id":"watching-women-militant-suffragists-write-the-british-surveillance-state-1905-1924-hardback-9781487555641","title":"Watching Women; Militant Suffragists Write the British Surveillance State, 1905-1924 (Hardback) 9781487555641","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eWatching Women\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eMilitant Suffragists Write the British Surveillance State, 1905-1924\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eStephanie J. Brown (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781487555641\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 18 December 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e448 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.9 x 3 cm, 0.74 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eHistorians of the early twentieth century often focus on the surveillance of anarchist, communist, and anti-colonial movements, overlooking the resource-intensive policing of the women\u0026amp;#x2019;s suffrage movement as a significant expansion of the state\u0026amp;#x2019;s surveillance activities. Bridging that gap in the historical record, \u003cem\u003eWatching Women\u003c\/em\u003e draws on recently declassified Home Office documents to present a fuller picture of the British domestic surveillance practices.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe book maps the history of state surveillance of the British women\u0026amp;#x2019;s suffrage movement and its leaders, explaining how militant activists used various forms of writing – novels, short stories, journalism, and memoirs – to represent and resist state surveillance. These genres in the book enable specific, strategic responses to the state\u0026amp;#x2019;s repression of suffrage militancy. The book explores the aftermath of suffrage surveillance by tracing the diverging activist careers of two prominent suffragettes, Sylvia Pankhurst and Mary Allen, during and after World War I, as they continued their engagement with the state\u0026amp;#x2019;s surveillance apparatuses. In doing so, \u003cem\u003eWatching Women\u003c\/em\u003e illuminates histories of the suffrage campaign through women\u0026amp;#x2019;s experiences of navigating surveillance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbbreviations\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Historical Surveillance as Lived Experience\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart One: Writing Surveillance into Suffrage Militancy \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Suffragists versus the State: Opposing Surveillance Practice, 1905–14\u003cbr\u003e2. Representing Surveillance in Militant Fiction: Suffrage Novels 1907–11\u003cbr\u003e3. Anti-State Strategies of the Militant Press, 1912–14\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart Two: Surveillance Entanglements during and after World War I\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. An \"Insult to Soldiers\u0026amp;#x2019; Wives and Mothers\": Anti-Surveillance Rhetoric in the Woman\u0026amp;#x2019;s Dreadnought, 1914–15\u003cbr\u003e5. Women\u0026amp;#x2019;s Police Work as Activism by Other Means, 1914–24\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52523400102168,"sku":"9781487555641","price":50.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/watching-women-militant-suffragists-write-the-british-surveillance-state-1905-1924-hardback-9781487555641","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}