Suffragette

In 2015, Germaine Greer, a well-known and influential second wave feminist, was set to speak at a seminar at Cardiff University. However, Greer had previously made controversial statements on trans women, stating they were not real women, sparking a petition against her seminar by contemporary feminist students at the university on the grounds Greer’s stance was insensitive and insulting. Attempting to explain the situation, Ruth Edwards in a Daily Mail article titled “Silenced by Feminazis: The…

In the Victorian era, before the the early 19th Century, women were expected to stay home to take care of their children, tend to the chores until her husband arrived home, and wear the uppermost proper clothing. This was the age of classical music in America. But like a raging wind, world war one arrived and swept men out of their homes and into the line of fire. During this time women became a precious resource in the the workforce, throwing aside their binding corsets and entered the factory…

The Gothic genre is known for many great works, but none is so qualified a representation as Charlotte Bronte’s publication of her 19th century Jane Eyre. Some would say Jane Eyre is an engaging love story in which love conquers all; on the other hand, some have derived an allegory for some unseen erotic power struggle embodied between men and women in the 1800s. However, deep down, Jane Eyre is truly the depiction of transition from harsh morality to beautiful satisfaction—a “story of a woman’s…

The Great War was largely determined by the technological progress that was pressed upon each country in order to subsist. The most notable advancement, displayed in the photograph above, is the infamous machine gun. It was “capable of sustained rates of extremely rapid fire; it could fire 600 bullets per minute with a range of more than 1,000 yards” (World War I, Britannica). Unlike its ancestors, the machine gun is able to stay in position after fire and doesn’t require readjustments after…

Appealing to the suffragette in each modern woman, this ad series depicted old black-and-white photos at the top captioned with details of situations in the late 1800’s in which women were being punished for smoking. The bottom half of the advertisement shows a contemporary…

The coin was small, and its value was only one dollar, but to Betty Friedan, and to women everywhere, it was worth so much more. Every person who looked at the silver coin would see not only a picture of women’s rights activist Susan B. Anthony, but also a symbol of the changing world, and how hard people had fought to make that change. This was the first time a woman had been etched into the metal of a coin, and it meant that the efforts of Friedan and Anthony were finally paying off. Despite…

This is an excerpt from the book “ Listen, the suffragettes were all about speaking up. You can't speak up for your rights and be silent. I thought what you did was cool but you can't make a difference unless you speak up.” This is Melinda’s lab partner David Petrakis giving her a little lecture that she…

The Oxford dictionary defines a vampire as ‘a corpse supposed to leave its grave at night to drink the blood of the living by biting their necks with long pointed canine teeth.’ But, as I will explain, there is much more behind this gothic character; a reflection of societal views and values and contextual evidence within their stories help us to understand the world in which they were created. A text from the past, in this case Dracula written by Bram Stoker in 1897, not only helps us to…

Countries like Denmark, Australia, and Canada had already granted women the vote in 1914, where in Britain, Suffragettes were fighting for rights. This put pressure on Britain as they were scared of revolution to take place, like already seen in Russia and France. After these revolutions over democracy had taken place there began an interest for a democratic government…

benefits gained by having all races and all genders come together. She fought bravely to focus on improving the climate and environment of racism in America instead of individual laws and individual issues (Black Past Organisation). Instead of most suffragettes of the time she called to men as well women in her speeches wanting to conjoin the sexes to gain more power in the Us. This was one the key ways she changed the public's perception of her race. She showed America that she did not mean to…