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Accommodating Women: Geographies of Citizenship in the Twentieth‐Century Campaign for Women's Jury Rights

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australian women were among the first in the world to receive electoral suffrage, yet it took until 1997 before they had full equality of jury suffrage. This article examines the debate around female jurors by focusing less on discourses of citizenship than on the subterranean spatial arrangements upon which equality depended.
Alecia Simmonds
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The Occupy Central Campaign in 2014 Hong Kong [PDF]

Contemporary Chinese Political Economy and Strategic Relations: An International Journal, 2016
The political movement in 201 4 Hong Kong was unprecedented. Benny Tai advocated the Occupy Central Movement that he intended to promote democratization of the Hong Kong constitutional reform in 2014.
Steven Chung Fun Hung
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Peace with the Earth

Parse Journal, 2023
This contribution comprises Documentation of the launch of Peace with the Earth, an English translation of the 1940 pamphlet Fred med jorden by the Swedish suffragettes and peace activists Elisabeth Tamm and Elin Wägner, at the 2021 PARSE conference on ...
Åsa Sonjasdotter
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Catholic Values and Gender Politics in the Colombian Mass Media: Acción Cultural Popular (ACPO) in the 1970s

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The 1970s were a decade of huge change for women in Colombia, from the legalisation of divorce to increased access to education, labour market participation and contraception. This article examines how the Catholic non‐governmental organisation Acción Cultural Popular (Popular Cultural Action, ACPO) responded to women's changing roles and ...
Anna Cant
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Modernity and Progress: The Transnational Politics of Suffrage in British Columbia (1910-1916)

Atlantis, 2020
Canadian historians have underplayed the extent to which theproject of suffrage and first wave feminism was transnational in scope. The suffrage movement in British Columbia provides a good example of the global interconnections of the movement.
Lara Campbell
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The evolution of political ideas of zemstvo’s workers and employees (June 1917 – June 1918) [PDF]

Известия Саратовского университета. Новая серия: История. Международные отношения
Based on the analysis of publications of departmental journals “Zemsky Delo” and “Zemsky Worker”, the author of the article tried to reconstruct several stages of development of political ideas of zemstvo’s workers and ...
Sobornov, Pavel E.
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Počátky hnutí za získání ženského volebního práva ve Velké Británii v druhé polovině 60. let 19. století

Právněhistorické studie, 2023
The paper focuses on the first phase of women’s efforts to gain the right to vote. There had been discussion over the preparation of the Second Reform Act about widening the franchise.
Eva Bažantová
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‘A Fairly Average “White Middle‐Class” Species of Lesbian’: Lorna Gulston, Ireland and the Early Anglophone Lesbian Press, 1965–1980

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the published writings of Lorna Gulston (c. 1932–2023), a hitherto unknown Northern Irish civil servant who wrote many articles for the earliest British lesbian magazines such as Arena Three, Sappho and Sequel. In doing so, the article asks: How did Gulston find her way onto the pages of these pioneering magazines?
Maurice J. Casey
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Woolf’s Exploration of —Combinations: Feminism in Night and Day

Études Britanniques Contemporaines, 2020
Night and Day (1919) has been neglected by both readers and critics, especially if the reception of the novel is compared to that of other Woolfian writings.
Nicolas Pierre Boileau
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‘Mere Amateurs’? Elementary Teachers and the Making of Scientific Authority in the British Child Study Movement

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article offers new perspectives on the relationship between elementary teaching, scientific expertise and the professionalization of the human sciences. Previous scholarship has demonstrated the ready existence of ‘amateur’ science societies in the nineteenth century where cross‐class exchanges were common.
Julia Gustavsson
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