01432nas a2200133   4500008004100000245006700041210006600108260000900174300000800183490000700191520101100198100001801209856007101227       2006                        eng d00aUptake and genre: The Canadian reception of suffrage militancy0 aUptake and genre The Canadian reception of suffrage militancy  c2006  a2880 v293 a<p>From 1909 onward, the Canadian suffrage debate was heavily influenced by reports on suffrage militancy from Great Britain and the United States. Militancy played an influential role in Canadian suffrage history not through its practice&ndash;there was no Canadian militant campaign&ndash;but through an ongoing discussion of its meaning. Using Anne Freadman&#39;s notions of genre and uptake, this paper analyzes the discursive uptake of suffrage militancy&mdash;from news reports on front pages, to commentary on women&#39;s pages, to reviews of Emmeline Pankhurst&#39;s Canadian speaking engagements. The Canadian debate about militancy is a fertile site for drawing out the roles of genre and uptake in the political positioning of both suffragists and suffrage sceptics. Talk about militancy serves as a way to regulate the uptake of this particular genre of political action, whereby both sides tended to share the optimistic view that Canadian suffragists where not yet in need of militancy.</p>
1 aThieme, Katja  uhttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277539506000173