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Rhythms of Iran, Echoes of Ireland: Silenced Voices of Sedigheh Dowlatabadi and Patricia Burke Brogan

Ilha do Desterro
Beginning with the suffrage movement and gaining momentum after the second wave of feminism in the 1960s and 1970s, feminist scholarship inquired how history could echo justice if only one gender narrated it.
Tuba Mozafari, Esmaeil Najar, John Cunningham   +2 more
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Elizabeth Fry—A Note-Worthy Friend

, 2019
Her picture is on the five-pound British note. She brought about prison reform in Britain. Her school of nursing inspired Florence Nightingale. She was the first woman to address Parliament.
Anderson, Paul N.
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Abraham Kuyper en Marie du Toit oor vrouestemreg

In die Skriflig, 1993
In the period between 1914 and 1921 three texts concerning Afrikaans women were published on women's suffrage: these texts were written by Abraham Kuyper (1914): a commission of the Synod of the Gereformeerde Kerke of South Africa with J.D.
C. Landman
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The gender of representation: On democracy, equality, and parity [PDF]

, 2008
The debate regarding the statutory introduction of gender parity in electoral lists has been led, on the one hand, by those who envisage parity as a way to attain substantive equality between the genders.
Rodíguez Ruíz, Blanca, Rubio-Marín, Ruth   +1 more
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The Forgotten Freedom of Assembly [PDF]

, 2009
The freedom of assembly has been at the heart of some of the most important social movements in American history: antebellum abolitionism, women\u27s suffrage in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the labor movement in the Progressive Era and after ...
Inazu, John D.
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THE IMPLICATIONS AND LEGACIES OF CHIAPAS’ 1925 WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE DECREE

Revista Pueblos y Fronteras Digital, 2007
En 1925, Chiapas otorgó el derecho a voto a las mujeres del estado, así como los derechos de ciudadanas, declarándolas jurídicamente iguales a los hombres; esto se dio veintiocho años antes que cuando la federación lo dispuso para el ámbito nacional ...
Sarah Osten
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Framtidens kvinna. Framställningen av kvinnlig rösträtt i två svenska flickböcker

Barnelitterært Forskningstidsskrift, 2017
This article explores depictions of female suffrage and the women’s movement in two stories published for girls: Cecilia Milow’s ”Han eller hon?” (1892, Him or Her?) and Hedvig Svedenborg’s Hannas dagbok (1921, Hanna’s Diary).
Maria Andersson
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"…the white women all go for sex": Discourses of Gender, Race, Ethnicity in the American Woman’s Rights Movement, 1869

Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies, 2012
As an emancipating movement for women, the American Woman’s Rights Movement can be considered as a "counter public sphere" which transgressed dominant orders of gender.
Michaela Bank
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Engendering city politics and educational thought: elite women and the London Labour Party, 1914-1965 [PDF]

, 2008
This article uses biographical approaches to recover the contribution of hitherto neglected figures in the history of education and the political history of the Left in London.
Martin, Jane
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London’s Suffragettes, Votes for Women, and Fashion [PDF]

Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies, 2018
Suffragettes’ militant campaigns for voting rights are commonly dissociated from fashion, yet, in fact clothing and accessories were widely used by Emmeline Pankhurst and her fellow activists to gain visibility and increase public support for the ...
Katarzyna Kociołek
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