“Soldiers in petticoats” on the British screen: a mirror to historiography

Suffragettes on the British screen have long been an object of ridicule and stereotyping, following the prevailing representations of popular culture. Often used to anchor the storyline in Edwardian England, the figure of the suffragette has also very early on been used to epitomise all types of reb...

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Published in:	Miranda: Revue Pluridisciplinaire du Monde Anglophone
Main Author:	Nicole Cloarec
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès 2023-01-01
Subjects:	Suffragette suffrage movement women’s rights movement British cinema British television series historiography
Online Access:	http://journals.openedition.org/miranda/53449

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