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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"suffrage movement"”.
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Some aspects of the woman suffrage movement in Indiana
The goal of this study was to survey the woman suffrage movement in Indiana. It focused principally upon the leaders, the organizations, and the activities which compromised the movement.Efforts to achieve other rights for women and additional reform movements were also examined when their …
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A historical study of the woman suffrage movement in California, 1910-1911
… filled with accounts of the gains made for woman suffrage in various parts of the United States as well as in countries overseas. There is evidence of agitation in Mexico, England, Ireland, and even in China. The California movement for woman suffrage was an important part of a world-wide …
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Independent Labour Party men and women's suffrage in Britain, 1893-1914
… and involvement within the British women's suffrage movement, of the male members of the Independent Labour Party, a mixed sex socialist organisation. The period covered ranges from 1893, the year of the party's foundation, to the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. The aim of this …
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'Woman's mission': the temperance and women's suffrage movements in Scotland, c.1870-1914
… late-nineteenth-century women’s temperance and suffrage movements in Scotland. The importance of women’s temperance reform in the women’s movement has been discussed in other Anglophone contexts, however there has been little scholarly analysis of these links in British historiography. This …
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Suffrage, solidarity and strife: political partnerships and the women's movement 1880-1930
… identity through an examination of the women' s suffrage campaigns, in particular the still under-researched, yet extremely important question of men's support for women' s suffrage. This thesis takes as its point of departure historical studies of gender, that is, a critical examination of the …
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Women and Humor: A Linguistic and Rhetorical Analysis of Joke Target
… to advance discussion on the question of women’s suffrage and equality. Using The General Theory of Verbal Humor (Attardo and Raskin, 1994; Attardo, 1994) to analyze some of the joke targets used by these women writers, the dissertation argues that some works of early feminist humor are easily …
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Lenna Lowe Yost, temperance, and the ratification of the woman suffrage amendment by West Virginia
… important reform causes---temperance and woman suffrage. It explores Yost's life and political accomplishments in both regional and national venues, progressing from her childhood, through her early activism, and culminating with the passage of the national woman suffrage amendment. During the …
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Jessie Ackerman, 'The Original World Citizen': Temperance Leader, Suffrage Pioneer, Feminist, Humanitarian.
… the contributions WCTU women made to the suffrage movement and to feminism.</p> <p>The research for this thesis relies heavily on primary sources including Ackerman’s personal papers found in Sherrod Library’s Archives of Appalachia, her three published books,<em>Australia From a Woman’s …
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"""A New Heaven and Earth"": Feminism, Religion and the Politics of Identity in Britain, 1901-1918"
… explores the interplay between religion and suffrage politics on the personal, communal and institutional levels. After an introductory chapter that maps out the current historiography on late nineteenth and early twentieth religious belief and practice, as well as on the British women's …
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Changing Tactics, Changing Identities: Woman’s Suffrage Protests in Washington, D.C., 1913-1920
… to take dramatic steps to ensure their right to suffrage and access to public space. Beginning in 1913 with the first National Demonstration and the pickets that followed in 1917, these women began to claim national public space as a space for protest. This research seeks to determine and …
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WORDS AS DEEDS: GENDER AND FEMINIST DISCOURSE IN BRITISH SUFFRAGE PERIODICALS (1907-14)
The movement for women’s enfranchisement carefully exploited the press in order to convey its message and as a further help for its campaign, despite the fact that the Suffragettes’ motto was ‘deeds, not words’. The publication of their own periodicals, aimed at a new type of female readership, was …
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"WE WON'T GIVE UP ON THIS UNTIL WE GET IT": THE WOMEN'S JURY MOVEMENT IN MISSISSIPPI, 1938-1968
… for jury service for women. While the women’s suffrage movement has been studied extensively, the subsequent movement for women’s jury service has largely been overlooked within historical scholarship. Mississippi, which became the last state to legalize women’s jury service in 1968, has been …
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The feminism and political radicalism of Helen Taylor in Victorian Britain and Ireland
… John Stuart Mill. Divisions in the women’s suffrage movement have been blamed on her difficult personality with no examination that it was her socialist anti-imperial feminism which was at the heart of the antagonism. Her important contribution to Victorian social and political life has been …
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Gender and community: Womanist and feminist perspectives in the fiction of Toni Morrison, Amy Tan, Sandra Cisneros, and Louise Erdrich
… of community. In the U.S., the women's suffrage movement and the mainstream feminist movements of the past three decades have concentrated on challenging middle-class Euroamerican patriarchal definitions of womanhood. Women of color and working class women have, for the most part, worked …
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Women and the Practice of Studio Portraiture in Britain 1888 – 1914: Politics, Commerce and Constructions of Femininity
… role of studio portraiture within the British suffrage movement and women photographers’ picturing of modern, politically engaged femininity. The construction of celebrity and feminine spectacle through studio portraits is the subject of the penultimate chapter. Finally, I reflect on the …
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Gender, Bolshevism & the Popular Press in Britain, 1916-1921
… crisis of gender related to the women’s suffrage movement and new roles created for women during the war. I argue that the popular press helped construct a gendered variant of hegemony during and after the war by appealing to the patriarchal imagination pervasive in British society as …
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Asanti Daughter of Zion: The life and memory of Harriet Tubman
… area where Tubman grew up, the abolitionist movement, the Underground Railroad, refugee communities in the North, the Civil War, the nature of community life in Auburn, N.Y., where Tubman settled after the war, humanitarian work in the African American community, and the woman's suffrage …
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Quaker politics and industrial change c.1800-1850
… particularly on Joseph Sturge and the Complete Suffrage movement. Chapter VII analyses the varying economic and political strategies of the Pease and Backhouse dynasties in South Durham and their relationship to Quaker organisation and affiliation. In conclusion, chapter VIII attempts to analyse …
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Making women magistrates: feminism, citizenship and justice in England and Wales 1918-1950
… the appointment of women as JPs in the women’s suffrage movement and demonstrates that the necessary legislation was largely uncontroversial. Chapter Two analyses the ongoing campaign by women’s organisations and their abilities to bring more women to the magisterial bench. Chapter Three …
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Genteel revolutionaries: the lives of Anna and Thomas Haslam
… life-long commitment to the cause of women's suffrage never faltered, despite the repeated discouragement of the fate of bills defeated in the House of Commons. The Haslams represented an Ireland which did not survive them. While they were dedicated to the union with Westminster, they worked …
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