The aim of this course is to explore the fault lines that were thus
revealed between the history and the memory of the British and
American movements.
Seminars are structured around lectures providing students with
essential historical knowledge (why were women deprived of the
vote in the first place? How did the US revolution, and the
industrial revolution, impact women’s place on both sides of the
Atlantic? When, how and why did women begin to organize and
fight for the right to vote? How did gender, class and race
interact in those movements? To what extent did they concern
all women?), and student-led discussions and debates of the
historical and memorial controversies surrounding individual
suffrage campaigners (How was the memory of the movement
constructed, contested and negotiated?). This will require you to
work in groups on primary and secondary sources in order to
build succinct but engaging arguments capable of triggering
debate.