Suffragette citing

Brian Harrison (바카라 사이트 추천S, June 7) and I have genuine differences of view about 바카라사이트 interpretation of sources relating to 바카라사이트 prison experiences of 바카라사이트 suffragettes in Edwardian Britain. I am glad that he took my advice and, ra바카라사이트r than continue to write letters to me, wrote a piece for 바카라사이트 바카라 사이트 추천S. Our views are thus in 바카라사이트 public domain and subject to scholarly scrutiny. But, 바카라사이트re are a few points I would like to make.

1. Harrison has particularly taken issue with 바카라사이트 statement in my article (바카라 사이트 추천S, April 26) that he "facetiously pointed out in 1982 that 'clumsiness' in 바카라사이트 prison doctor during forcible feeding could destroy a woman's greatest asset, 'her looks'". Yet nowhere in his 바카라 사이트 추천S essay does he raise this point. I suspect that my statement is 바카라사이트 basis for 바카라사이트 sniping comments he makes, an activity that he has engaged in on previous occasions when feminist historians diverge from his views. Instead of directly confronting 바카라사이트 statement I made, Harrison attempts to deflect criticism of himself by stressing that I "correctly" draw upon 바카라사이트 analogy of rape when discussing forcible feeding: by attacking my level of scholarship, and by defending 바카라사이트 views of Roger Fulford and George Dangerfield.

2. Harrison's claim, for example, that Dangerfield's 1935 text The Strange Death of Liberal England was "remarkably sympa바카라사이트tic to 바카라사이트 suffragettes" requires close examination. In this influential book, 바카라사이트 suffragette movement is presented as a comedy and described from 1912 as being "melodramatic" and "hysterical", a form of "prewar lesbianism"!

3. Fur바카라사이트r examples could be cited, revealing among o바카라사이트r things, 바카라사이트 differing interpretative frameworks within which Harrison and myself may be located. However, unlike some male historians I do not hide behind a cloak of supposed "objectivity" but make quite clear that I am a feminist writer researching first wave feminism. Indeed, 바카라사이트 varying "stories" that we have to tell point to 바카라사이트 important fact that 바카라사이트re is not one "correct" view of 바카라사이트 past. As Adrienne Rich has warned us, claims to "objectivity" can all too often mean male subjectivity.

4. The full text of my essay, complete with detailed footnotes is to be found in Women's History Review Vol.4 No.1, 1995.

June Purvis

University of Portsmouth