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The Right to Rule and the Rights of Women in Victorian Britain with Arianne Chernock
The Right to Rule and the Rights of Women in Victorian Britain with Arianne Chernock
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Length:
63 minutes
Released:
Oct 6, 2016
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Podcast episode
Description
Historians have long suspected that Queen Victoria’s gender played a role in the rise of constitutional (e.g. ceremonial) monarchy in 19th-century Britain. But what was the nature of this role? In this seminar, Arianne Chernock takes on this question through an archival-based approach by exploring Victoria’s centrality to the early women’s rights movement in Britain – especially in inspiring women to demand the right to vote. Chernock argues that recognizing Victoria’s role in the women’s rights movement allows us to see the shift towards a more restricted Crown as an attempt to contain radical thinking about women, agency, and power to create a more democratic and transparent British state.
Speaker: Arianne Chernock, Associate Professor, Department of History, Boston University
Speaker: Arianne Chernock, Associate Professor, Department of History, Boston University
Released:
Oct 6, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode
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