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Title	Genres of Political Activism: The BC Suffrage Movement, 1900-1917
Creator	Thieme, Katja
Contributor	University of British Columbia. Centre for Women's and Gender Studies
Date Issued	2011-11-09
Description	The suffrage movement in British Columbia was not a political movement that garnered much international or even national attention. Unlike the hunger strikes of English suffragettes or the march on Washington by American suffragists, there is very little about the suffrage movement in British Columbia that is remembered by anyone other than academic researchers. In other words, this regional campaign seems to have stayed within existing conventions and expectations as they existed for middle-class women’s political participation at the time. However, to critique a movement for its lack of radicalism is to discount political work which uses discursive conventions to its advantage. It is because of its relative lack of radical discourse that the BC suffrage movement allows us to think carefully about the relation of suffrage activism to systems of discursive action. This presentation will particularly highlight the range of letters to M.L.A.s, petitions, and resolutions that were produced by suffragists within an expanding network of women’s clubs and associations. While these suffragists were in a disadvantaged position in relation to seats of political power, they acquired a high level of discursive skill—and, in relation to working-class women, privilege—through the political genres practiced in these clubs and associations.
Subject	British Columbia Suffrage 1900-1917 BC Suffrage Movement Suffragettes
Type	Sound
Language	eng
Notes	The Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies (CWGS) at the University of British Columbia (UBC) offered a weekly lecture series for the fall and winter semesters. This series brought together scholars that focussed on issues related to women and the study of gender/sexuality. The series included post doctoral and visiting scholars, faculty both from CWGS and additional departments engaged in research relevant to the mission of the centre.
Series	Centre for Women's and Gender Studies (CWGS) Lecture Series
Date Available	2011-11-09
Provider	Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported
DOI	10.14288/1.0052309
URI	http://hdl.handle.net/2429/38914
Affiliation	Women's and Gender Studies, Centre for
Peer Review Status	Unreviewed
Scholarly Level	Faculty
Rights URI	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/
AggregatedSourceRepository	DSpace

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