She examines the settings of the movement, economically, socially, religiously, educationally, and politically. The forces that shaped the women’s suffrage movement, such as social change, advances in educational, religious movements, and opportunities for social reform, are also considered. Bolt then discusses the movements themselves in three parts: the first taking place from 1840 to 1860, second 1870 until 1880, and third from 1890 until 1914. Bolt references several other works regarding the Women’s movement, such as Olive Banks’s Faces of Feminism: A Study of Feminism as a Social Movement, and Sex and Suffrage in Britain 1860-1914 by Susan Kingsley Kent. Bolt concludes that both movements had a similar timeline, and both organized after a period of feminism in writing and a social movement for change. The two groups also felt that advances in education for women would lead to the advances of their cause and progress on issues, such as the improvement of education, on which men agreed and had …show more content…
Pugh discusses the issues regarding the women’s movement, such as problems regarding the planning of the movement, organization, leadership, strategy, and the debate regarding the movement. He also discusses the movement itself, along with the militancy and non-militancy movements that came from the original movement. Pugh builds upon the ideas of his contemporaries, such as Olive Banks’s Becoming a Feminist: The Social Origins of First Wave Feminism, Sandra Stanley Holton’s Feminism and Democracy: Women’s Suffrage and Reform Politics in Britain,