Feminist Media History: Suffrage, Periodicals and the Public Sphere

Cover......Page 0
Contents......Page 5
List of Figures......Page 7
Acknowledgments......Page 8
Introduction: The Challenges and Contributions of Feminist Media History......Page 9
Contentious voices......Page 10
Media history as a field......Page 12
Locating feminist media history......Page 15
The early feminist and suffrage press......Page 21
Structure and argument of the book......Page 23
Part I: Publics, Social Movements, and Media History......Page 27
Introduction......Page 29
Revisiting debates about the public sphere......Page 30
Publics and counterpublics......Page 33
Publics and social movements......Page 37
The private and the public......Page 39
Suffrage history and social movements......Page 43
Key aspects of contentious collective action......Page 46
Social movement organizations......Page 50
Temporal continuity and cycles of protest......Page 51
Framing......Page 53
Culture and social movements......Page 55
Media and social movements......Page 62
Situating women’s political periodicals in press/media history......Page 65
Research to date......Page 66
The impact of feminist media research......Page 71
New directions......Page 72
The feminist press and alternative media......Page 74
The significance of early feminist media......Page 76
Part II: The Case Studies......Page 79
Introduction......Page 81
1 Unity and Dissent: Official Organs of the Suffrage Campaign......Page 84
“Causy papers”: The uses and abuses of official organs......Page 86
The emergence and proliferation of suffrage organs......Page 92
Suffrage and its discontents: Internal conflict......Page 97
Agendas for change: Suffrage organs and the 1910 general election......Page 107
Post election conciliation......Page 124
Conclusion......Page 126
2 The Englishwoman: “Twelve Years of Brilliant Life”......Page 128
Languishing in the archive......Page 130
Finding a niche in a crowded print market......Page 133
The Englishwoman: Anatomy of a feminist review......Page 140
Arts and culture in the Englishwoman......Page 147
Women’s movements, suffrage, and war......Page 149
Women, work, and the Englishwoman......Page 158
Conclusion......Page 164
3 Individualism and Introspection: The Framing of Feminism in the Freewoman......Page 167
Contributors and readers......Page 171
Experimental collective identities......Page 173
Periodical communities......Page 180
Framing: Sexual morality and practices......Page 188
The Freewoman Discussion Circle......Page 192
Conclusion......Page 199
Conclusion......Page 202
Notes......Page 209
Bibliography......Page 221
Index......Page 237