Women's Suffrage in Word, Image, Music, Stage and Screen The Making of a Movement

'By placing suffrage's aesthetic experiments in conversation in one volume, Women's Suffrage in Word, Image, Music, Stage and Screen reveals the ways in which ideas crossed between various art forms. From treatments of fashion to the meaning of suffrage colours, from poster art to the architecture of gendered political spaces, the innovative chapters of this collection illuminate the variety of suffrage artistic experiment. This volume is essential reading for all interested in the intersection of aesthetics and political movements.'

Barbara Green, Professor of English and Concurrent Faculty in Gender Studies at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana

'This magnificent new work on British women's suffrage brings together the highly imaginative strategies deployed by women artists, musicians, playwrights, actresses to demand votes for women. These fifteen essays offer a fascinating wide-angle lens and close up images of the titanic struggle which achieved first instalment of the vote in 1918 and full female suffrage 1928. The extraordinary personal sacrifice and suffering of the women campaigners offer a poignant juxtaposition to the exquisitely designed banners, the marching bands and brilliantly stage-managed processions and protests which grabbed the attention of the politicians, the press and the public throughout the United Kingdom. This collection offers interesting new angles on the most important political struggle of the twentieth century.'

Diane Atkinson, Author of Rise Up, Women! The Remarkable Lives of the Suffragettes (Bloomsbury, 2018)