Download or read book Pacifists, Patriots and the Vote written by J. Vellacott and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-07-12 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study traces the resurgence of a conservative suffrage leadership, questions the inevitability of the narrow franchise granted to women in 1918, and suggests that something important was lost, especially to the Labour party and to feminism, when a broad vision of democracy and patriotism became a casualty of war, self-interest and jingoism.