From Subject to Conscript The Military Revolution

When Nancy Astor decided to become the first female member of Parliament in the British House of Commons, just after women had won the vote, she made the following comment: “We are not asking for superiority, for we have always had that; all we ask is equality.”³ Was Astor seriously considering “equ...

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Published inReplacing Misandry pp. 60 - 95
Main Authors Young, Katherine K, Nathanson, Paul
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Canada MQUP 2015
McGill-Queen's University Press
Subjects
Armed conflict
Armed forces
Behavioral sciences
Christianity
Conscription
Families
Family members
Gender bias
Gender studies
Human populations
Human societies
Men
Military life
Military personnel
Military revolution
Military science
Military service
Misandry
Persons
Political science
Population studies
Religion
Social institutions
Social sciences
Sociology
Soldiers
Sons
Spiritual belief systems
War
War theaters
Warfare
World wars
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ISBN9780773545533
0773545530
DOI10.1515/9780773583788-005

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Summary:When Nancy Astor decided to become the first female member of Parliament in the British House of Commons, just after women had won the vote, she made the following comment: “We are not asking for superiority, for we have always had that; all we ask is equality.”³ Was Astor seriously considering “equality”? The background to that question is worth discussing in detail. This was in 1919, only one year after the end of the First World War, which had killed at least 703,000 young men and wounded 1,663,000 others in Britain alone,⁴ and only three years after the introduction in
ISBN:9780773545533
0773545530
DOI:10.1515/9780773583788-005