Title Sisters and sisterhood : the Kenney family, class, and suffrage, 1890-1965 / Lyndsey Jenkins

Edition First edition Published Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2021 ©2021

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations Series Oxford historical monographs Oxford historical monographs. Contents Cover -- Sisters and Sisterhood: The Kenney Family, Class, and Suffrage, 1890-1965 -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- 'The Kenneys of Shelderslow' -- Class in suffrage history -- Sources, method, and overview -- 1: Childhood -- Home and family, gender, and class -- Formal and informal education -- Religion, faith, and doubt -- Paid work -- Practising the 'religion of socialism' -- Conclusion -- 2: Beliefs -- Sex and class in feminist rhetoric -- Spirituality, faith, and the meaning of the struggle -- Service, duty, and responsibility -- Conclusion -- 3: Class -- The construction, uses, and reception of Annie Kenney's image -- The uses and limitations of common experience as the basis for common cause with working-class women -- Constructing the model suffragette -- Friendship, love, collaboration, and their limits -- Conclusion -- 4: Militancy -- Militant identity at the grassroots -- Friendship and militancy: Jessie Kenney and the 'Young Hot Bloods' -- Identity, belonging, and transformative moments of militancy -- Conclusion -- 5: Careers -- The benefits of suffrage activism for feminist teachers -- Montessori education and social disadvantage -- Wartime service and postwar citizenship -- Educating girls for womanhood -- Conclusion -- 6: Aftermath -- Retirement? -- Searching for meaning in faith -- Service, duty, and paid work -- Representation, life-writing, and the historical record -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Manuscript collections -- Contemporary printed material -- Newspapers and magazines -- Books and articles -- Unpublished material -- Index Summary By studying a family of working-class suffragettes, Lyndsey Jenkins explores when, why and how the Kenney family got involved in militant suffrage campaigning, what it meant to them, how they benefited, and how it shaped their lives Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed November 29, 2021) SUBJECT Kenney family Subject Women's Social and Political Union (Great Britain) SUBJECT Women's Social and Political Union (Great Britain) fast Subject Suffragists -- England -- Biography Women -- Suffrage -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century Suffragists Women -- Suffrage England Great Britain Genre/Form Biographies History Biographies. Biographies. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780192665126 019266512X 9780191944086 0191944084

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