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The Scottish Suffragettes and the PressIntroduction

The Scottish Suffragettes and the Press: Introduction [This chapter introduces some of the previous work on the women’s suffrage movement in Scotland and explains the focus of this book – the way in which the suffrage issue and the suffragettes were portrayed in, and interacted with, the Scottish press. It discusses the new journalism aimed at a mass readership that had emerged by the start of the twentieth century, the emergence of the woman journalist and women’s pages, and the importance of the press as source material for studies of the women’s suffrage movement.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017. The author(s) has/have asserted their right(s) to be identified as the author(s) of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
ISBN
978-1-137-53833-8
Pages
1 –19
DOI
10.1057/978-1-137-53834-5_1
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Abstract

[This chapter introduces some of the previous work on the women’s suffrage movement in Scotland and explains the focus of this book – the way in which the suffrage issue and the suffragettes were portrayed in, and interacted with, the Scottish press. It discusses the new journalism aimed at a mass readership that had emerged by the start of the twentieth century, the emergence of the woman journalist and women’s pages, and the importance of the press as source material for studies of the women’s suffrage movement.]

Published: Jul 2, 2017

Keywords: Scottish suffrage movement; New journalism; Women journalists

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