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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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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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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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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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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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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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Why do Public Debates Escalate? Trigger Points and the Moral Dynamics of “Hot Politics”
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Escalating, emotionally charged, and moralized forms of controversy are a central feature of contemporary politics. Our study develops a framework for understanding how political debates between ordinary citizens become heated; why certain issues provoke particularly strong emotions; and how this affective potential is weaponized by ...
Linus Westheuser +2 more
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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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Suffragettes of the empire, daughters of the republic: women auto/biographers narrate national history (1918-1935) [PDF]
, 2007 This paper explores modes of autobiographical writing by female authors in the early republican period. Women's autobiographies draw a strict distinction between the narration of the private and the public self, as they promote the narration of the ...
Adak, Hulya, Adak, Hülya
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Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.This paper examines the substantive representation of women in Australian legislative institutions by analysing private members' bills introduced at the state and federal levels from 1997 to 2022. While Australia has made considerable progress in gender equality, persistent sexism and misogyny challenge the substantive impact of increasing numbers of ...
Isabella Vacaflores, Elise Stephenson
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