'Looking More Like Ghosts Than Women': Unity among Militant Suffragette Hunger-Strikers in the Women's Social and Political Union.
This article explores how the practices of hunger-striking and force-feeding worked to build unity among suffragettes within the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) during the years of the militant suffrage campaign, 1903–1914. It uses evidence of these practices found in publicly available ar...
| Publicado en: | Australian Feminist Studies Vol. 40; no. 126; pp. 356 - 375 |
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