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Transatlantica, 2022 This article is a political and cultural history of the role of the Farmers’ Alliance and Populism in the crusade for woman suffrage in the 1880s and 1890s. Women were actively involved in the agrarian insurgency.
Jean-Louis Marin-Lamellet
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ABSENTEEISM IN MODERN LAW: CAUSES AND METHODS OF OVERCOMING IT [PDF]
Journal of International Legal Communication, 2023 prism of democracy and legitimacy of parliamentary activity is considered. The relationship between the political and legal culture of the population and the process of forming a clear civic position, civic activism and social responsibility has been ...
Tetiana Frantsuz-Yakovets
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Opolskie Studia Administracyjno-Prawne, 2020 The author presents the rules of suffrage that were binding in Zweites Reich (The Second Reich), that is the German Empire, during elections to provincial self-government in Prussia and then compares them with the new election law implemented in the ...
Tomasz Kruszewski
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The Life and Times of Karola Szilvássy, Transylvanian Aristocrat and Modern Woman
Hungarian Cultural Studies, 2019 In this study Cristian surveys the life and work of Baroness Elemérné Bornemissza, née Karola Szilvássy (1876 – 1948), an internationalist Transylvanian aristocrat, primarily known as the famous literary patron of Erdélyi Helikon and lifelong muse of ...
Réka M. Cristian
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The achievement of female suffrage in Europe: on women’s citizenship [PDF]
, 2014 This article lays out the theoretical framing underlying the gendered construction of citizenship in Western political thought during the transition to modernity; describes the relevant actors in the fight for female suffrage and the impact that the ...
Rubio-Marín, Ruth
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Public Histories of Australian and British Women's Suffrage: Some Comparative Issues
Public History Review, 2007 In this article I consider the ways in which activists in the British suffrage movement became the public historians of their own pasts. I analyse the different forms in which the history of suffrage feminism was created and the ways in which it both ...
Hilda Kean
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Queen Caroline’s pains and penalties: Silence and speech in the dramatic art of British women’s suffrage [PDF]
, 2012 In Britain, the act that launched the militant campaign of the suffragettes in 1905 was the interruption of a political meeting in Manchester. The violent silencing and arrest of the women ensued.
Cockin, Katharine
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‘Going on with our little movement in the hum drum-way which alone is possible in a land like this’: Olive Schreiner and suffrage networks in Britain and South Africa, 1905-1913 [PDF]
, 2016 This article explores the letters of South African feminist writer Olive Schreiner (1855–1920) to illuminate connections and tensions between suffrage movements in the imperial metropole and on the colonial periphery. Schreiner's letters shed fascinating
Dampier, HC
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Suffrage and Electoral Rights of Expatriates [PDF]
Zbornik Radova Pravnog Fakulteta u Splitu, 2015 This paper points out the historical aspect of suffrage and electoral rights. The practice of the Court of the European Union, the European Court for the protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms and the opinion and recommendation of the ...
Marc Gjidara
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19, 2021 In 1899 Irish suffragist Dorothea Roberts gave Bedford College a portrait of Millicent Fawcett by the artist Theodore Blake Wirgman. This gift commemorated Fawcett’s acceptance of her honorary degree from the University of St Andrews, an important ...
Imogen Tedbury
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