“Meticulously researched and engagingly written, Jorgensen-Earp offers a rhetorical history of Winston Churchill’s early political career through his relationship to the British women’s suffrage movement, making a persuasive case that we cannot fully understand one without the other.”—Leslie J. Harris, Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, author of State of the Marital Union: Rhetoric, Identity, and Nineteenth-Century Marriage Controversies.
“This invaluable rhetorical history is a gift to scholars of Churchill and women’s history. With illuminating analysis and extensive archival research, Cheryl Jorgensen-Earp complicates and humanizes our understanding of Churchill, women’s suffrage, and their relationship to each other.”—Tiffany Lewis, Associate Professor at Baruch College, CUNY and author of Uprising: How Women Used the U.S. West to Win the Right to Vote.
“Elegantly written and rich in archival discovery, Henpecked reframes Winston Churchill through his fraught and revealing relationship with women’s suffrage. This book is as intellectually rigorous as it is readable, offering a strikingly original account that will change how scholars and readers understand both Churchill and the suffrage movement.” —Belinda A. Stillion Southard, Professor and author of Militant Citizenship and How to Belong
