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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
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Forgotten feminists: the Federation of British Professional and Business Women, 1933-1969 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Using archive documents of the British Federation of Business and Professional Women (BFBPW) this article explores the role of this early business organisation in campaigning for feminist issues in the post-war period.
Perriton, L.
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The ‘envers du décor’ of Suffragette Imagery: Anti-Suffrage Caricature

open access: yesCahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 2008
The visible historical discourse that surrounds ‘the woman question’, and more specifically speaking, the acquisition of the women’s right to vote, most frequently evokes the question from the Suffragette or the Suffragist point of view. Articles, books,
Abby Franchitti
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Vision et visibilité : la rhétorique visuelle des suffragistes et des suffragettes britanniques de 1907 à 1914

open access: yesRevue LISA, 2003
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 suffragistand antisuffragistcampaigns ...
Myriam Boussahba-Bravard
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The transnational factor: The beginnings of South Africa’s women’s movement

open access: yesContree, 2015
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’s Suffrage: A Cinematic Study

open access: yesRevue LISA, 2014
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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Women and Science. The keys to equality

open access: yesMètode Science Studies Journal: Annual Review, 2021
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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The argument of the broken pane: Suffragette consumerism and newspapers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Within the cut-throat world of newspaper advertising the newspapers of Britain's Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) Votes for Women and the Suffragette managed to achieve a balance that has often proved to be an impossible challenge for social ...
Baldasty Gerald J.   +21 more
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An intimate dialog between race and gender at Women’s Suffrage Centennial

open access: yesHumanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2020
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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Sarah Grand and the Woman Question: Dialectical Progress and Hope

open access: yesAnglo Saxonica, 2021
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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