a woman whocampaignedfor therightof women tovote,especiallyamemberof the early 20thcenturyBritishgroupofactivitistsledby Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst
（20世纪初英国、澳大利亚和美国）为女性争取选举权团体的成员
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These demonstrations offer an opportunity to examine the nature of militancy and explore some of the chief themes ofsuffragettehistoriography.
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One was that police methods had become more effective, keeping crowds moving and preventing suffragettes from driving up and holding their own meetings.
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The passions which might have been aroused by forcible feeding could not be mobilized on the suffragettes' side.
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But thesuffragettemythology visibly fails to explain the events of 1909-10.
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The pattern of itinerant militancy continued even though rank-and-file suffragettes were practising it.
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What thesuffragettearmy lacked was not discipline, but numbers, and a coherent strategy.
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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.
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Its secondary purpose was to get suffragettes into prison.
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Provocatively, her definition of the drama is inclusive, encompassing amateur and home theatricals as well assuffragettetexts, translations and adaptations, and a distinctive subset of 'paratheatrical' writings.
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Thesuffragettegloss justified the ' rushes ' on parliament, the attempts to achieve interviews with ministers by force, and the appeal above the government to the general public.
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Magistrates and prison officials had to deal with 'ordinary ', rank-and-file suffragettes who were often first offenders.
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I want to describe somesuffragetterough justice from 1910.
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Is it not the fact that until suffragettes were forcibly fed nobody suggested that forcible feeding was not a humane method?
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She was asuffragetteand one of those who began the campaign for family allowances.
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In 1913, suffragettes burned the grandstand to the ground in support of votes for women.
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