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Women's Suffrage Centennial Commission: Second Report [PDF]

, 2019
Report from the Women's Suffrage Centennial Commission providing an update about the group's work including meetings, the formation of subcommittees, and progress on the Commission's ...
United States. Women's Suffrage Centennial Commission.
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The Struggle for Swiss Women’s Suffrage in Times of Rising Anti-feminism

DiGeSt: Journal of Diversity and Gender Studies
This 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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‘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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Words and Deeds: Discord between the British Parliament and the Women’s Social and Political Union relating to the First Conciliation Bill of 1910

J@rgonia, 2021
This article focuses on the question of women’s suffrage in Britain by analyzing the interaction between the House of Commons and the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) - the radical suffrage organization founded in 1903 and led by the famous ...
Manninen, Laura-Mari
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Thomas Spence on Women’s Rights: A Vindication

Miranda: 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
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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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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?

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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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L’Unione Femminile (1901-1905): reti e relazioni internazionali

Laboratoire Italien, 2021
Unione Femminile (1901-1905) was one of the most important women’s political magazines of the early twentieth century. It was created to give visibility to the Italian and international women’s movements and, in particular, to the activities promoted ...
Graziella Gaballo
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A Tribunal Only in Name: Anarchic Sensibilities at the International Tribunal on Crimes Against Women, 1976

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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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