Review of Stephanie Brown’s Watching Women: Militant Suffragists Write the British Surveillance State, 1905–1924
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: In Watching Women: Militant Suffragists Write the British Surveillance State, 1905State, -1924State, (2024)), Stephanie J. Brown retells British suffragettes' literary worlds through the paradigm of surveillance activism.The lives, artworks, journalistic engagements, and textual production of suffragette women are linked to rhetorical and institutional strategies as they resisted, reformed, and even joined British surveillance organizations locally and nationally.Watching Women-the first book-length study of suffrage militancy vis-à-vis surveillance-leaves no claim unsubstantiated.Brown's rich archive does not eclipse her thesis' clarity: suffrage women's engagements with England's nascent, intensifying surveillance state are understudied, glazing over women's agency in shaping the modern surveillance apparatus.
Source: Surveillance & Society
Author: Simone Sparks
Institution: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4413939140