言辞与行动——英国妇女选举权运动史的研究成就与走向

Words or Deeds:the Achievement and Trends of the studyies on British Women's Suffrage Movement

正如在英国妇女选举权运动中,对言辞与行动到底哪一个更有效的看法不同一样;英国史学界对妇女选举权运动的研究,也在战斗的妇女参政者和宪政的妇女参政者各自成就的评价上有所偏重。在新世纪,英国《妇女史评论》推出了《言辞如行动》的专集,从新的角度来探讨言辞的作用,从而在某种意义上消弭了言辞与行动相对立的历史观念。

Just as people's views vary on the role of words and deeds in a movement,the studies on British women's suffrage movement also show different attitudes towards the achievements made by different women participants in government and political affairs,mainly militant suffragettes and constitutional suffragists.Women's History Review,one of the authoritative jorunals in UK,put out a special issue entitled“Words as Deeds'at the beginning of the new century.This issue discusses the role of words in a movement from a new perspective and in a sense puts an end to the long-held antithesis between words and deeds.The study on women's suffrage movement is closely related to the process of women's liberation movement.within which both gender concept and feminism perspective are used to aid the study on the subject,thus displays a diversity of the study in terms of its theory,theme,perspective and range.