Watching Women by Stephanie J. Brown - 9781487555641

Name: Watching Women by Stephanie J. Brown - 9781487555641
Brand: Stephanie Brown

Stephanie Brown

Watching WomenMilitant Suffragists Write the British Surveillance State, 1905-1924\nAuthor(s): Stephanie J. Brown\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Toronto Press, Canada\nImprint: University of Toronto Press\nISBN-13: 9781487555641, 978-1487555641\nSynopsis\nHistorians of the early twentieth century often focus on the surveillance of anarchist, communist, and anti-colonial movements, overlooking the resource-intensive policing of the womens suffrage movement as a significant expansion of the states surveillance activities. Bridging that gap in the historical record, Watching Women draws on recently declassified Home Office documents to present a fuller picture of the British domestic surveillance practices.\n\n The book maps the history of state surveillance of the British womens 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.