Sisters and Sisterhood The Kenney Family Class and Suffrage 1890 1965 1st edition by Lyndsey Jenkins 0192665133 9780192665133

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ISBN-10 :  0192665133 

ISBN-13 :  9780192665133

Author:   Lyndsey Jenkins 

The Kenney family grew up in Saddleworth, outside Oldham, in the last decades of the nineteenth century. In 1905, three of the sisters met Christabel Pankhurst, a turning point which changed the rest of their lives. Annie Kenney became one of the leaders of the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU), Jessie was an organiser at the heart of the organisation, and Nell campaigned outside the capital. Caroline and Jane used their connections within the suffrage movement as the springboard for careers in innovative education on both sides of the Atlantic. While working-class women are increasingly acknowledged in histories of the WSPU, this study is the first to make them the primary focus, and, in doing so, it opens up a new conversation around sex, class, and politics, and how these categories interacted in this period. This is a study of the possibilities for, and experiences of, working-class women in the militant suffrage movement. It identifies why these women became politically active, their experiences as activists, and the benefits they gained from their political work. It stresses the need to see working-class women as significant actors and autonomous agents in the suffrage campaign. It shows why and how some women became politicised, why they prioritised the vote above all else, and how this campaign came to dominate their lives. It also places the suffrage campaign within the broader trajectory of their lives to stress how far the personal and political were intertwined for these women. Although this is a book about ‘working-class suffragettes’, Lyndsey Jenkins also reveals what it says about women as workers and teachers, religious believers and political thinkers, and friends and colleagues, as well as suffragettes. Above all, it is a study of sisterhood.

Sisters and Sisterhood: The Kenney Family, Class, and Suffrage, 1890-1965 1st Table of contents:

1. Childhood
Home and family, gender, and class
Formal and informal education
Religion, faith, and doubt
Paid work
Practising the ‘religion of socialism’
Conclusion
2. Beliefs
Sex and class in feminist rhetoric
Spirituality, faith, and the meaning of the struggle
Service, duty, and responsibility
Conclusion
3. Class
The construction, uses, and reception of Annie Kenney’s image
The uses and limitations of common experience as the basis for common cause with working-class women
Constructing the model suffragette
Friendship, love, collaboration, and their limits
Conclusion
4. Militancy
Militant identity at the grassroots
Friendship and militancy: Jessie Kenney and the ‘Young Hot Bloods’
Identity, belonging, and transformative moments of militancy
Conclusion
5. Careers
The benefits of suffrage activism for feminist teachers
Montessori education and social disadvantage
Wartime service and postwar citizenship
Educating girls for womanhood
Conclusion
6. Aftermath
Retirement?
Searching for meaning in faith
Service, duty, and paid work
Representation, life-writing, and the historical record
Conclusion

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