Watching Women: Militant Suffragists Write the British Surveillance State, 1905-1924

by Stephanie Brown

Historians of the early twentieth century often focus on the surveillance of anarchist, communist, and anti-colonial movements, overlooking the resource-intensive policing of the women's suffrage movement as a significant expansion of the state's surveillance activities. Bridging that gap in the historical record, Watching Women draws on recently declassified Home Office documents to present a fuller picture of the British domestic surveillance...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1487555644
• ISBN13: 9781487555641
• Release Date: August 2024
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 464 Pages
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"