Book contents
- The Right to Rule and the Rights of Women
- The Right to Rule and the Rights of Women
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 The Radicalism of Female Rule in Eighteenth-Century Britain
- 2 “An Argument of a Very Popular Character”
- 3 Rethinking the “Right to Rule” in Victorian Britain
- 4 The Anti-Suffragists’ Queen
- 5 “No More Fitting Commemoration”?
- Conclusion
- A Note on Sources
- Bibliography
- Index
4 - The Anti-Suffragists’ Queen
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2019
Book contents
- The Right to Rule and the Rights of Women
- The Right to Rule and the Rights of Women
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 The Radicalism of Female Rule in Eighteenth-Century Britain
- 2 “An Argument of a Very Popular Character”
- 3 Rethinking the “Right to Rule” in Victorian Britain
- 4 The Anti-Suffragists’ Queen
- 5 “No More Fitting Commemoration”?
- Conclusion
- A Note on Sources
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter traces how critics of women's rights, and especially of women's political rights, used arguments about the limited and dependent role of the female sovereign to minimize the queen's feminist potential, and to erode faith in the larger aims of the women's movement more generally. It focuses especially on the later decades of Victoria's rule, from the 1860s, when anti-suffragists were particularly zealous in their efforts to mobilize Victoria for their own alternative purposes.
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- The Right to Rule and the Rights of WomenQueen Victoria and the Women's Movement, pp. 123 - 147Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019