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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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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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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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Uptake and genre: The Canadian reception of suffrage militancy [PDF]

, 2006
From 1909 onward, the Canadian suffrage debate was heavily influenced by reports on suffrage militancy from Great Britain and the United States. Militancy played an influential role in Canadian suffrage history not through its practice–there was no ...
Katja Thieme
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The ‘envers du décor’ of Suffragette Imagery: Anti-Suffrage Caricature

Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 2008
The visible historical discourse that surrounds ‘the woman question’, and more specifically speaking, the acquisition of the women’s right to vote, most frequently evokes the question from the Suffragette or the Suffragist point of view. Articles, books,
Abby Franchitti
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New Collections for New Women: Collecting and Commissioning Portraits at the Early Women’s University Colleges

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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Non-universal suffrage: measuring electoral inclusion in contemporary democracies

European Political Science, 2019
The electoral franchise has become more universal as restrictions based on criteria such as sex or property have been lifted throughout the process of democratisation.
Samuel D. Schmid, Lorenzo Piccoli, Jean-Thomas Arrighi   +2 more
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“The perfect library”Carrie Chapman Catt and the authoritative historiography

Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos, 2014
The very act of remembering was at the core of power dynamics in the suffrage movement, during the years of struggle and after the ratification of the 19th amendment in 1920.
Claire Delahaye
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Seeing (in)security, gender and silencing: posters in and about the British women’s suffrage movement

International Feminist Journal of Politics, 2019
Feminist Security Studies focuses on expanding the referent object to individuals and non-state collectives, looking beyond the military sector to include questions of identity, and uncovering (in)security in unexpected places.
Dean Cooper-Cunningham
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