'That splendid body of women': nursing, professional registration, and suffragette militancy.
In the decades before World War One, a group of women fought for their right to control their own futures, claiming that their governance was in the hands of men whose interests lay in keeping women subservient. Initially articulated by an educated, middle-class few, the women's demands were embrace...
| Published in: | Women's History Review Vol. 29; no. 6; pp. 1000 - 1016 |
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