Organizing for Citizenship and Democracy
Is there more to be said about the militant women's suffrage movement in Britain? Some readers might feel dubious. After all, there has recently been a slew of Pankhurst biographies notably Martin Pugh's The Pankhursts (2001), plus two in 2002 both entitled Emmeline Pankhurst, one by June Purvis and the other by Paula Bartley.1 Delving a generation further back, Antonia Raeburn's Militant Suffragettes (1973) included interviews with many surviving elderly suffragettes shortly before they died, while Andrew Rosen's Rise Up, Women! (1974) offered useful tabulations including age of women on arrest (so often under thirty) and arson targets (date, location, object, estimated value). Meanwhile, Virago Press republished Sylvia Pankhurst's 1931 The Suffragette Movement (1977), upon which the BBC had drawn heavily for its television drama series, Shoulder to Shoulder (1974).2 Alongside ran more articles on militancy than you could shake a stick at including most recently a heated debate on 'The Suffragettes: Heroes or Terrorists?' (2007).3 HWJ readers restive at the prospect of yet further accounts might prick up their ears at the track record of the two authors reviewed here, experienced suffrage historians both. Laura E. Nym Mayhall, an American academic, is already familiar to UK suffrage historians, initially through her influential article on 'Creating the "Suffragette Spirit"' (1995), which exam ined how from the 1920s onwards the Suffragette Fellowship's 'inclusion in the community of militant suffragettes rested upon the defining act of imprisonment' and slanted the suffrage narrative by privileging one 'sequence of events... arrest and incarceration'.4 More recently Mayhall discussed how, for the generation of women coming to political conscious ness during the Boer War, two competing understandings of women's citizenship emerged: one a gendered model of service, the other insisting
Rise Up, Women!: The Militant Campaign of the Women's Social and Political Union, 1903-1914
Introduction 1. Antecedents 2. Enter the Pankhursts 3. The Founding of the WSPU 4. Militancy Begins 5. To London 6. Rapid Growth 7. The Split 8. To Hyde Park! 9. Frustration Mounts 10. Violence Begins 11. The Truce 12. The Truce Renewed 13. Violence, Flight, and Divided Counsels 14. The Pethick-Lawrences Depart 15. Bromley and Bow, and its Aftermath 16. The Arson Campaign 17. The Great Scourge 18. The Arson Campaign, Continued 19. The End of the Militant Campaign 20. Epilogue: The Vote, and After
Peritoneal eosinophils during intermittent peritoneal dialysis.
Peritoneal eosinophil counts were investigated in 61 intermittent dialysis patients over the course of 1 year. The peritoneal eosinophil percentage fell from 18 +/- 2% (mean +/- SEM) in the first 2 months of dialysis to 3 +/- 0.4% after 6 months of dialysis. Absolute eosinophils per cubic millimeter fell from 586 +/- 126 to 61 +/- 18 (p less than 0.01 for both percentage and absolute values). There was a wide range in the mean eosinophil percentages per patient in the first 6 months of dialysis (0-84%) that narrowed to 0-9% after 6 months. The majority of the high initial eosinophil counts resolved after 2 months. Peripheral eosinophilia was seen in 8 of the 10 patients with the highest mean peritoneal eosinophil percentages during the first 2 months of dialysis. Patients who developed peritonitis had a significantly lower percentage of eosinophils in the first 1.5 months of dialysis than patients who did not develop peritonitis. At the time of diagnosis of peritonitis, the peritoneal eosinophil count was near zero. 4 cases of peritoneal eosinophilia which developed after antibiotic therapy are described.