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By the Edwardian period, the Women’s Movement had reached its peak through the unifying claim for female suffrage. The suffragettes’ public disorder, the increasing numbers of activists and supporters and the suffragistand antisuffragistcampaigns ...
Myriam Boussahba-Bravard
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The transnational factor: The beginnings of South Africa’s women’s movement
The South African women’s movement had its origins in the Cape, but it also had a strong transnational relationship with countries such as the United Kingdom and the United States.
Monica G. Fernandes
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Women and Science. The keys to equality
The traditional exclusion of women from the public sphere, from education, politics, art and culture, as well as women’s confinement to the domestic realm, have –little by little– undergone steady change since the Enlightenment, with the liberalisation ...
Josep Lluís Barona
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Sarah Grand and the Woman Question: Dialectical Progress and Hope
One of the staunch advocates of women’s suffrage, Sarah Grand, expresses her hope in a better future for women in her novelistic and journalistic work. In her view, two contemporary types of individuals, here referred to as the New Woman and the New Man,
Maria Granic
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An intimate dialog between race and gender at Women’s Suffrage Centennial
Women’s Suffrage Centennial has arrived in a culturally divisive time in the United States as well as in a high-stakes presidential election year. All this is accompanied with the emergence of Black Lives Matter movement on a global-scale in the wake of ...
Mimi Yang
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The nurses that roared: nurses from history who found their voices and challenged the status quo [PDF]
In this article we explore how nurses from history challenged norms of nursing and society, and consider how they can influence and inspire nurses today. We discuss the role of nurses in the fight for women’s suffrage, campaigning for the vote and caring
Attenborough, J. +2 more
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Women’s Suffrage: A Cinematic Study
Cinema reflects actualities about law but it also shapes other possibilities for law. These assumptions guide my case study of the women’s suffrage movement in the United States and the conflicting conceptualizations of women’s equality in which that ...
Suzanne Bouclin
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Russian Suffragists and International Suffragist Organisations: Solidarity, Discipleship, Victory [PDF]
This article serves to throw light on how suffragism developed in Russia at the beginning of the 20th Century. In 1905, the first Russian electoral law was enacted, granting men, but not women, the right to vote.
Irina Iukina
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Suffragettes of the empire, daughters of the republic: women auto/biographers narrate national history (1918-1935) [PDF]
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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They did not even ask for it! on women's suffrage in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes [PDF]
Women in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes did not have the right to vote. Women's suffrage was not prescribed by Vidovdan Constitution. Regarding women's voting rights, the Constitution only contained a certain provision that stipulated that ...
Drakić Gordana M.
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