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4 days ago · Women's suffrage is the right of women to vote in elections. At the beginning of the 18th century, some people sought to change voting laws to allow women to vote. Liberal political parties would go on to grant women the right to vote, increasing the number of those parties' potential constituencies.
5 days ago · Addams became an anti-war activist from 1899, as part of the anti-imperialist movement that followed the Spanish–American War. Her book Newer Ideals of Peace (1907) reshaped the peace movement worldwide to include ideals of social justice.
2 days ago · The suffragette movement is commonly viewed as the first wave of feminism. These “original” feminists were fighting for their personhood, inclusion and safety at a time when women weren’t recognised as citizens or people with rights. Of course, as times changed and feminists gained more progress, the movement grew.
4 days ago · Alice and Neil talk about British suffragette leader Emmeline Pankhurst and her struggle to get women a better life. This week's question Which was the first country to give all women the right...
1 day ago · Alice Paul was a pivotal figure in the women's suffrage movement. Her early life and education shaped her future activism. 01. Born on January 11, 1885: Alice Paul entered the world in Mount Laurel, New Jersey. Her Quaker upbringing instilled values of equality and justice. 02.
20 hours ago · The militant suffragette movement was suspended during the war and never resumed. British society credited the new patriotic roles women played as earning them the vote in 1918. However, British historians no longer emphasise the granting of woman suffrage as a reward for women's participation in war work.
3 days ago · For more on the women’s movement in Britain 1920s to 1950s, see Martin Pugh, Women and the Women’s Movement in Britain since 1914 (London: Bloomsbury, 2015), Cheryl Law, Suffrage and Power: The Women’s Movement 1918–1928 (London: IB Tauris, 1997) and Caitríona Beaumont, ‘The Women’s Movement, Politics and Citizenship, 1918–1950s’, in Women in Twentieth Century Britain, ed. I ...
