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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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Selecting the Electorate

Politikon, 2023
Autocrats utilize (nominally) democratic elections, to claim procedural legitimation. To secure their political survival in these elections, they have an extensive menu of manipulation at their disposal.
Kristin Eichhorn
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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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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 Timely Rise of a Teenage Reformer: Youth Revolt, Feminism and the Struggle for a ‘New Sexual Morality’ at the Dawn of the Spanish Second Republic

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The contributions of propagandist and writer Hildegart (1914–1933) to Spanish cultural life are overshadowed by accounts of her unusual upbringing and violent death. This article examines the conditions that enabled the teenager to become a prominent voice for feminism and sexual reform on the eve of Spain's Second Republic (1931–1939).
Micaela Pattison
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Women's Suffrage Centennial Commission: Seventh Report to Congress and the President [PDF]

, 2020
Report from the Women's Suffrage Centennial Commission providing an update about projects, including the shift to digital activities for the centennial due to the COVID-19 ...
United States. Women's Suffrage Centennial Commission.
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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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Suffrage Movement and the Subversion of the ‘Juridico-Discursive’ Power in the Victorian Period: Elizabeth Robins and The Concept of 'New Women'

K@ta: A Biannual Publication on the Study of Language and Literature, 2016
This paper examines the socio-historical subversion of ‘juridico-discursive’ power in the late Victorian period. It briefly investigates the rise of the British suffrage movement and highlights the role of ‘suffrage drama’ as its social apparatus.
Esmaeil Najar, Reza Kazemifar
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