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The Struggle for Swiss Women’s Suffrage in Times of Rising Anti-feminism
DiGeSt: Journal of Diversity and Gender StudiesThis article examines the rise of anti-feminism in Switzerland during the 1930s and its impact on the women's suffrage movement. It analyses how anti-feminist arguments, advocating for women's withdrawal from wage labour and reinforcement of traditional ...
Dominique Lysser, Pauline Milani
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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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Scrolling Forward, Sliding Backward: How Social Media Threatens the Functionality of Democracy
Social SciencesPolitical theorists have suggested that democracy is at odds with liberalism. Moreover, with fears about the recent rise in populism, there is growing skepticism about whether liberalism and democracy can continue to survive.
Hiroki Takeuchi, Kitty Eid
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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 отношенияBased 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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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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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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The First World War at Sea: Death, Commemoration and Cultural Remembrance
History, EarlyView.Abstract Despite the ever‐increasing body of work devoted to war memorials, national days of remembrance and the commemoration of the First World War in Britain, academic focus remains firmly on the commemoration of the First World War on land. Yet, while the number of people who died at sea paled in comparison to their counterparts on the battlefield ...
ROWAN THOMPSON
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School Board Elections in England and Wales, 1870–1902: An Electoral Experiment?
History, EarlyView.Abstract The 1870 Elementary Education Act enabled the creation of school boards in England and Wales. Members were directly elected by the cumulative vote. This method gave each individual voter as many votes as there were seats on a school board, in some cases up to fifteen.
ED GREEN
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History, EarlyView.Abstract In March 1976, around 2000 women from forty countries arrived at the Palais des Congrès in Brussels to participate in the first International Tribunal on Crimes Against Women. Explicitly positioning themselves against the United Nations‐led ‘International Year of the Woman’, the organizers and participants of the tribunal proclaimed a global ...
NIVEDITA JOON
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, 2020 Whiteboard animation video describing the history of women's suffrage in the United States. This episode focuses on the 1913 women's suffrage parade, the first organized protest march in the U ...
United States. Women's Suffrage Centennial Commission.
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