{"title":"The Vote as Voice: Tracing the Intersections of Feminism and Free Speech Through Emmeline Pankhurst’s Address “Freedom or Death”","authors":"Kate Zittlow Rogness","doi":"10.1080/21689725.2015.1080986","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"At its core, feminist rhetorical scholarship is about freedom of expression. However, few scholars of free speech engage questions of gender, and those that do largely limit their focus to the harm expression has had on women, situating women objects of speech instead of speaking subjects. To create a stronger foundation from which free speech scholars may explore issues of gender, this paper seeks to suture together feminist and free speech scholarship by exploring how Emmeline Pankhurst’s speech, “Freedom or Death,” lends unique insight into how suffrage advocates envisioned the vote as voice.","PeriodicalId":37756,"journal":{"name":"First Amendment Studies","volume":"49 1","pages":"71 - 85"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2015-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/21689725.2015.1080986","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"First Amendment Studies","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21689725.2015.1080986","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"Social Sciences","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
At its core, feminist rhetorical scholarship is about freedom of expression. However, few scholars of free speech engage questions of gender, and those that do largely limit their focus to the harm expression has had on women, situating women objects of speech instead of speaking subjects. To create a stronger foundation from which free speech scholars may explore issues of gender, this paper seeks to suture together feminist and free speech scholarship by exploring how Emmeline Pankhurst’s speech, “Freedom or Death,” lends unique insight into how suffrage advocates envisioned the vote as voice.
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First Amendment Studies publishes original scholarship on all aspects of free speech and embraces the full range of critical, historical, empirical, and descriptive methodologies. First Amendment Studies welcomes scholarship addressing areas including but not limited to: • doctrinal analysis of international and national free speech law and legislation • rhetorical analysis of cases and judicial rhetoric • theoretical and cultural issues related to free speech • the role of free speech in a wide variety of contexts (e.g., organizations, popular culture, traditional and new media).