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Doctoral student to give lecture on women’s suffrage in Britain

LAWRENCE – Christine A. Anderson, a doctoral student in the Department of History at the University of Kansas, will give a lecture from 3:30 to 5 p.m. Monday, March 3, at the Dole Institute of Politics.

The talk, “ ‘Votes for Women!’: The Birth of a Modern, Middle-Class and Female Politics in London,” will focus on the 20th century women’s suffrage movement in Britain.

In a presidential election year in which one of the leading candidates is a woman, many people are reflecting upon the emergence of women in politics. Although the early American and British women’s suffrage movements shared similar characteristics, the movement in Britain developed a particularly modern, middle-class and female politics that became the standard that the U.S. and other nations emulated.

Anderson is the Richard and Jeannette Sias Graduate Fellow in the Humanities at KU’s Hall Center for the Humanities. Her dissertation, “(Per)Forming Female Politics: The Stages of Modernity in London, 1890–1914,” investigates how the discourses and representations of “modernity” performed on stage shaped a political consciousness and a new femininity for middle-class women in London.

The event is co-sponsored by the Dole Institute of Politics and is free and open to the public.

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