Eustance, Claire ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8680-8446 (2025) Chapter 18. The women’s Freedom League and the growth of feminism in British before 1918. In: Cowman, Krista, (ed.) The Routledge Companion to British Women’s Suffrage. Routledge Companions . Routledge - Taylor & Francis, London. ISBN 978-1138557420 (doi:10.4324/9781138557420)

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Abstract

This chapter seeks to situate the Women’s Freedom League in a larger history of feminism in early twentieth-century Britain. It reassesses the ideas and actions of key individuals in the League up to 1918 and illuminates how its leaders, along with countless ‘ordinary’ branch members, engaged with a broad spectrum of ideas about women’s roles and rights coming out of America, Britain and its ‘colonies’ and in doing so helped to introduce and consolidate radical ‘feminist’ discourses into what had by 1910 become a recognisably mass-membership women’s movement.

Item Type:	Book Section
Uncontrolled Keywords:	women's suffrage, feminism
Subjects:	D History General and Old World > D History (General) D History General and Old World > DA Great Britain H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences > School of Humanities & Social Sciences (HSS)
Last Modified:	09 Feb 2026 10:06
URI:	https://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/24461

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