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- Title
Shame and the Anti-Suffragist in Britain and Ireland: Drawing Women back into the Fold?
- Authors
Crozier-De Rosa, Sharon
- Abstract
Shame has been heavily relied on as a political tool in the modern world and yet it is still a much under-historicised emotion. Using the examples of early twentieth-century Britain and Ireland, I examine how women opposed to the campaign for female suffrage used shame instrumentally in their writing. Exploring the versatility of this political device, I find that shame was used with the oppositional intentions of binding and excluding. Whereas British conservatives used it to protect an already well-established imagined community of good imperial women, Irish radicals drew on it to invite women to take part in the construction of a new nationalist sisterhood. This paper further problematizes claims that as an emotion that plays on a sense of the communal, shame has had no place in a highly individualistic modern world.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; SUFFRAGE -- History; WOMEN'S suffrage; SHAME; WOMEN political activists; EMOTIONS &; politics; BRITISH politics &; government; IRISH politics &; government; TWENTIETH century
- Publication
Australian Journal of Politics & History, 2014, Vol 60, Issue 3, p346
- ISSN
0004-9522
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/ajph.12063