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“The Ballot Humbug”: Anarchist Women and Women’s Suffrage
, 2021 This article explores how anarchist women viewed the feminist struggle for suffrage in the early 1900s. By focusing on this ostensible historical anomaly — women against patriarchy refuting the call for women’s suffrage — the article ventures ...
Lundström, Markus
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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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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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100th Anniversary of Women Winning the Vote: Reflections on the 2020 Centennial
, 2020 Conversation among members of the Women's Suffrage Centennial Commission discussing the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment and reflecting on the work of the Commission during ...
Shogan, Colleen +4 more
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, 2021 From 1905–1920, American college and university students carried on active and understudied campaigns to gain legitimacy and support for women’s suffrage at institutions of higher education across the United States.
Marino, Kelly L.
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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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Women as Producers of Global Historical Knowledge
Österreichische Zeitschrift für GeschichtswissenschaftenIn 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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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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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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Cahiers Victoriens et EdouardiensThis paper will focus on how the religious symbolism used in the British women’s suffrage movement was integrated, perceived, and received by studying two particular cases: the funeral of the suffragette Emily Wilding Davison and the Pilgrimage of the ...
Chloé Clément
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