“Working women demand peace and food”: Gender and class in the East London Federation of Suffragettes' food politics

In this article, we foreground how gender, class and feminism underpin the aims modes of mobilization food politics a British first wave suffragette organization, East London Federation Suffragettes. Our discussion shows upper middle-class suffragettes excluded working-class women marginalized their political gendered classed interests, raising questions about feminist cross-class solidarities today. We focus on three Suffragettes quite different mobilization: embodied protests, radical welfare community organizing protest writing, all which politics. discussing distinct mobilization, highlight rich package strategies they created identities struggles in these. show diversity social roles around politicked, as workers, mothers, housewives consumers. The historical enables us to “see” activities identifications over time understand map range dynamics. Moreover, have “longtail” continue influence thinking, but mobilizing been much less recognized yet offer potential insights for activism, including cost-of-living crisis