The Transfiguring Sword: The Just War of the Women's Social and Political Union

by Cheryl R. Jorgensen-Earp

Book Overview

Provides a new understanding of the recurrent rhetorical need to employ conservative rhetoric in support of a radical cause

The Women's Social and Political Union, the militant branch of the English women's suffrage movement, turned to arson, bombing, and widespread property destruction as a strategy to achieve suffrage for women. Because of its comparative rarity, terrorist violence by reform (as opposed to revolutionary) movements...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817358218
• ISBN13: 9780817358211
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"