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Henpecked: Winston Churchill and Women's Suffrage de Cheryl R. Jorgensen-Earp

Henpecked: Winston Churchill and Women's Suffrage: Rhetoric of Power and Protest

Autor Cheryl R. Jorgensen-Earp
en Limba Engleză Paperback – dec 2026
Henpecked: Winston Churchill and Women’s Suffrage explores the recurrent interactions between Winston Churchill and the women’s suffrage movement in Britain. Churchill purposely concealed, under a discursive veil, his complex and shifting perceptions of women’s competency to use the franchise. In balancing a public stance that vaguely favored the “principle” of women’s suffrage with his, often private, opposition to the movement’s legislative efforts, he employed every available rhetorical tool. This book presents a new understanding of his early Parliamentary career, his ability to manipulate public and private discourse, and his complicated stance on women’s right to vote. This rhetorical history challenges the view that Winston Churchill was only dissuaded in his support of women’s suffrage by the militancy of suffrage activists.
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ISBN-13: 9781611865912
ISBN-10: 1611865913
Pagini: 346
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Editura: Michigan State University Press
Colecția Michigan State University Press
Seria Rhetoric of Power and Protest

Notă biografică

Cheryl Jorgensen-Earp is Professor Emerita of Communication Studies at the University of Lynchburg. She has received several awards for research and teaching, including the 2021 Golden Anniversary Monograph Award from the National Communication Association, the Huston Award for Scholarship from the University of Lynchburg, and the 2001 Virginia Professor of the Year from CASE/Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.

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“Meticulously researched and engagingly written, Jorgensen-Earp offers a rhetorical history of Winston Churchill’s early political career through his relationship to the British women’s suffrage movement, making a persuasive case that we cannot fully understand one without the other.”—Leslie J. Harris, Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, author of State of the Marital Union: Rhetoric, Identity, and Nineteenth-Century Marriage Controversies.

“This invaluable rhetorical history is a gift to scholars of Churchill and women’s history. With illuminating analysis and extensive archival research, Cheryl Jorgensen-Earp complicates and humanizes our understanding of Churchill, women’s suffrage, and their relationship to each other.”—Tiffany Lewis, Associate Professor at Baruch College, CUNY and author of Uprising: How Women Used the U.S. West to Win the Right to Vote.

“Elegantly written and rich in archival discovery, Henpecked reframes Winston Churchill through his fraught and revealing relationship with women’s suffrage. This book is as intellectually rigorous as it is readable, offering a strikingly original account that will change how scholars and readers understand both Churchill and the suffrage movement.” —Belinda A. Stillion Southard, Professor and author of Militant Citizenship and How to Belong

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Henpecked argues that Winston Churchill’s carefully veiled, strategically shifting rhetoric toward women’s suffrage—publicly supportive in principle yet, often privately, obstructionist—reveals a complex stance on women’s right to vote. This rhetorical history challenges the view that Winston Churchill was only dissuaded in his support of women’s suffrage by the militancy of suffrage activists.