Table of Contents

1: An Introduction to Women's Anti-Suffragism
The Leading Women Anti-Suffragists
2: Maternal Reformers and Education
3: Maternal Reformers and Social Duty
4: Women Writers
5: Imperial Ladies
Women's Anti-Suffragism in Action
6: The Women's Appeal and After
7: The Women's National Anti-Suffrage League
8: Working With Men
9: Suffrage, Sexuality and Citizenship
10: Anti-Suffragists at War
11: A Retrospective View of Failure

About the Author

Julia Bush is Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at University of Northampton.

Reviews

Women against the Vote is an illuminating, well-crafted study that restores to history the conservative dimensions of female political activism in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain. It also reveals fascinating threads between opponents and supporters of female suffrage in all their complexity. Times Higher Education Supplement The personnel, organization and attitudes of the 'Antis' are fully and sensitively explored by Julia Bush...[with] sober and careful analysis Times Literary Supplement Julia Bush has written this book to restore the anti-suffragists to the mainstream of women's history. Suffragists and anti-suffragists, she argues, share considerable 'common ground' London Review of Books