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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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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
doaj  

The History of Feminism in the Arab World

مجلة الدراسات الاجتماعية, 2023
This paper investigates the history of Arab feminism. It traces how those women came from different parts of Arab world and how they developed their awareness towards women's issues, though they do not call themselves as 'feminists' at the beginning. The
Ahmed Saeed Ahmed Mocbil
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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, Thomas Lux, Steffen Mau   +2 more
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Flora Stevenson (1839-1905), philanthropist and educationist [PDF]

, 2004
Biography of Flora Stevenson, 19th century philanthropist and ...
Corr, Helen
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Miss(ed) Representation? Gender, Policy Content, and Legislative Success in Australian Private Members' Bills

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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Franchises Lost and Gained: Post-Coloniality and the Development of Women’s Rights in Canada

Perspectives on Federalism, 2017
The Canadian constitution is to some extent characterised by its focus on equality, and in particular gender equality. This development of women’s rights in Canada and the greater engagement of women as political actors is often presented as a steady ...
Skeet Charlotte Helen
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Perversity, futility, complicity: Should democrats participate in autocratic elections?

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Electoral authoritarianism is receiving increasing attention from political scientists, yet it has been mostly ignored by political philosophers. This paper aims to fill some of this gap by considering whether it is morally permissibly for democrats to participate in autocratic elections as candidates or voters.
Zoltan Miklosi
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Women as Producers of Global Historical Knowledge

Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften
In 1907 the Grand Duchy of Finland of the Russian Empire became the first state in the world to elect women to its national parliament. This paper explores an overlooked part of the process that led to Finnish women attaining full suffrage, which is ...
Juho Korhonen
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Breaking Barriers: The History of Women's Education and the Training of Female Surgeons

ANZ Journal of Surgery, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background and Aims Medicine and surgery have been practised by women since the earliest of times, but as these activities became professionalised, they became excluded by various barriers. The aims of this review are to identify these obstacles and how they were overcome.
John P. Collins
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