The Ascent of Woman

by Melanie Phillips

Book Overview

The story of the fight to gain the vote for women is about much more than a peripheral if picturesque skirmish around the introduction of universal suffrage. It is an explosive story of social and sexual revolutionary upheaval, and one which has not yet ended. The movement for women's suffrage in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries prefigured to a startling extent the controversies which rage today around the role of women. Far from...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0349116601
• ISBN13: 9780349116600
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: Abacus (UK)
• Length: 370 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.1" x 7.8"