THE BRITISH WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT AND THE PRACTICE OF PETITIONING, 1890-1914
THE BRITISH WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT AND THE PRACTICE OF PETITIONING, 1890-1914
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英国妇女选举权运动和请愿实践，1890-1914 年
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10.1017/s0018246x20000035
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2020
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MILLER H
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本文通过对妇女选举权运动的考察，重新审视了请愿在十九世纪末二十世纪初英国政治文化中的地位。爱德华时代的妇女选举权运动虽然批评维多利亚时代的前辈对请愿书的依赖，但并没有放弃请愿书，而是重新创造了请愿书。这篇文章没有呈现妇女参政论者和妇女参政论者之间的两极分化的关系，而是展示了两者如何通过请愿在一系列直接行动政治上运作。激进分子和立宪主义者开创了新的请愿模式，尽管不同，但这些模式为更广泛的大众政治奠定了基础，使这种古老的做法适应了新生的大众民主。然后，这篇文章将选举权活动家对请愿活动的再创造置于更广泛的政治背景中。学者们早就注意到，请愿活动的明显减少，被重新定义为维多利亚时代压力团体的大规模请愿议会的经典模式的衰落。二十世纪初是重塑请愿的关键时期，请愿是一种政治参与和表达的工具，通过无数的订阅形式，而不是主要通过议会请愿的媒介。
Through an examination of the women's suffrage movement, this article reassesses the place of petitioning within late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British political culture. While critical of their Victorian predecessors’ reliance on petitions, the Edwardian women's suffrage movement did not abandon petitioning, but reinvented it. Rather than presenting a polarized view of relations between suffragettes and suffragists, the article shows how both operated on a spectrum of direct action politics through petitioning. Militants and constitutionalists pioneered new, although different, modes of petitioning that underpinned broader repertoires of popular politics, adapting this venerable practice to a nascent mass democracy. The article then situates suffrage campaigners’ reinvention of petitioning within a broader political context. The apparent decline of petitioning, long noted by scholars, is reframed as the waning of the classic model of mass petitioning parliament associated with Victorian pressure groups. The early twentieth century was a crucial period for the reshaping of petitioning as a tool for political participation and expression through myriad subscriptional forms, rather than primarily through the medium of parliamentary petitions.