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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'

open access: yesK@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
doaj  

The Restriction of Suffrage in the Perspective of Fair Election in Indonesia

open access: yesHasanuddin Law Review, 2018
In order to ensure the suffrage of citizens is implemented according to the principle of fair election, regulations on general and local elections may contain various kinds of restriction of suffrage.
Khairul Fahmi   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Problems of substituting vacant deputy’s mandates due to early termination of powers of a deputy elected within a list of candidates

open access: yesИзвестия высших учебных заведений. Поволжский регион: Общественные науки, 2022
Background. The distribution of deputy mandates after the end of the elections is one of the most controversial issues in legal science. The use of various methods of mandate distribution directly determines the implementation of electoral rights.
M.Yu. Emelin, B.V. Nikolaev
doaj   +1 more source

The First World War at Sea: Death, Commemoration and Cultural Remembrance

open access: yesHistory, 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
wiley   +1 more source

Women’s Experimental Economies in W. Somerset Maugham’s Short Fiction: Negotiating Women’s Roles in “Daisy”, “The Colonel’s Lady” and “The Creative Impulse”

open access: yesCaliban: French Journal of English Studies, 2019
Dans ses nouvelles, W. Somerset Maugham s’essaie à différents types de narration dont les traits stylistiques saillants peuvent être considérés comme caractéristiques de son écriture. Trois nouvelles en particulier portent sur l’évolution ambiguë du rôle
Francesca Massarenti
doaj   +1 more source

School Board Elections in England and Wales, 1870–1902: An Electoral Experiment?

open access: yesHistory, 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
wiley   +1 more source

From 2020 to 1920 and Back: One Hundred Years from the 19th Amendment

open access: yesUSAbroad, 2021
In January 2021, A Black, South Asian woman, Kamala Harris, has risen to the position of U.S. vice president at the same moment as the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment. The article considers the changes that have occurred during
Raffaella Baritono
doaj   +1 more source

A Tribunal Only in Name: Anarchic Sensibilities at the International Tribunal on Crimes Against Women, 1976

open access: yesHistory, 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
wiley   +1 more source

Thomas Spence on Women’s Rights: A Vindication

open access: yesMiranda: Revue Pluridisciplinaire du Monde Anglophone, 2016
Thomas Spence, a defender of women’s political and economic rights, was one of the very few pamphleteers who advocated women’s suffrage in his times. Nevertheless, he has been criticized by some historians for his patriarchal, even reactionary outlook ...
Rémy Duthille
doaj   +1 more source

URBAN CLIMATE GOVERNANCE AND THE UNEVENNESS OF CITY NETWORKS: The Trajectory and Perspectives of the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy in Chile

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Scholars have widely discussed integrating local administrations into climate governance networks, focusing on networks such as the Global Covenant of Mayors or C40, whose members are mostly in the European Union or countries of the global North and premium cities managed by engaged administrations. Relatively little is known about urban‐scale
Alejandra Irigoyen Rios, Rosa Lehmann
wiley   +1 more source

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