Eksempler på suffragette

• These demonstrations offer an opportunity to examine the nature of militancy and explore some of the chief themes of suffragette historiography.

• One was that police methods had become more effective, keeping crowds moving and preventing suffragettes from driving up and holding their own meetings.

• The passions which might have been aroused by forcible feeding could not be mobilized on the suffragettes' side.

• But the suffragette mythology visibly fails to explain the events of 1909-10.

• The pattern of itinerant militancy continued even though rank-and-file suffragettes were practising it.

• What the suffragette army lacked was not discipline, but numbers, and a coherent strategy.

• It greatly increased the psychological pressure on all sides, and threatened to discredit the government by allowing suffragettes to evade the penalties of the law.

• Its secondary purpose was to get suffragettes into prison.