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| Kira Cochrane (How to win your fights, suffragette style, 30 May) offers a spirited analysis of suffragette tactics that might be useful for feminists today. But she cites only women-friendly sources and ignores the male-dominated history profession that has marginalised the suffragette movement and presented it in sexist and demeaning ways. George Dangerfield, in his influential The Strange Death of Liberal England (1935), called the courageous Emily Wilding Davison "a very unbalanced girl", a description that has echoes down to the present. Andrew Rosen in Rise Up Women (1974) even suggested Emily may have found "a quasi-sexual fulfilment in the contemplation of self-destruction"; while David Mitchell in his biography of Christabel Pankhurst (1977) sneered that Emily's funeral was like "a mobster's farewell". It is this kind of sexism that feminist historians have to fight today, not only in the books that are written by many male historians, but also in their workplaces. June Purvis University of Portsmouth | Kira Cochrane (How to win your fights, suffragette style, 30 May) offers a spirited analysis of suffragette tactics that might be useful for feminists today. But she cites only women-friendly sources and ignores the male-dominated history profession that has marginalised the suffragette movement and presented it in sexist and demeaning ways. George Dangerfield, in his influential The Strange Death of Liberal England (1935), called the courageous Emily Wilding Davison "a very unbalanced girl", a description that has echoes down to the present. Andrew Rosen in Rise Up Women (1974) even suggested Emily may have found "a quasi-sexual fulfilment in the contemplation of self-destruction"; while David Mitchell in his biography of Christabel Pankhurst (1977) sneered that Emily's funeral was like "a mobster's farewell". It is this kind of sexism that feminist historians have to fight today, not only in the books that are written by many male historians, but also in their workplaces. June Purvis University of Portsmouth |
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