Suffragette

different aspects of the women suffragette movement. Comparing these two podcasts about the suffragettes, these podcasts are without focusing on the positive and negative are trying to display the whole truth of the movement without withholding anything. These two podcasts are similar in the exposing aspect of the suffragette movement. They both are trying to give more information on a moment in history that is repeatedly glossed over. History frames the suffragette movement as a light and…

The suffragists believed in moderate, peaceful tactics or ‘peaceful persuasion to win the vote for middle class women and were nicknamed ‘The Suffragists’ . Their membership was around 53,000 by 1914 and they reached agreements of mutual support with some male Trade Unions and the new Labour Party . Millicent Fawcett argued that if Parliament made laws and if women had to obey those laws, then women should be part of the process of making those laws . The peaceful protests that the Suffragists…

geological terms, Paul contributed an entire boulder to the movement because without her the 19th amendment would not have been passed or ratified as quickly as it was. Alice Paul’s traditional Quaker upbringing, time spent in England among radical suffragettes, and determination even at the expense of her own life, to see women…

Adam Hochschild’s To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918 chronicles Britain’s moral struggle concerning World War I from before the outbreak of the war to after the armistice on November 11th, 1918. Though World War I—also the Great War—is often portrayed in media as one that was celebrated by all, To End All Wars brings to light a sizable anti-war movement thriving in Britain while telling the story of the soldiers who fought on the Western Front. Hochschild focuses on the…

just over two month’s time. The public reaction was mixed, but by that time negative responses were somewhat irrelevant; the new laws had been made. The Otago Daily Times ran a news story on 20 September 1893 announcing the “Total Victory” for the suffragettes, and noting that as the announcement was made in the House, “20 years seemed in an hour to have been taken off [Sir John Hall’s] age”. The remainder of the story is positive, as expected from a paper run in one of the strongholds for…

Groups such as the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), the Canadian Women’s Suffrage Association, and the National Council of Women supported the suffragettes. Many of the leaders within these groups were educated and professional women who spoke up for middle-class women who were also interested in votes for women. The Grain Growers’ Association was also another influential group who supported woman’s…

Anthony was one of the prominent suffragette figures in this era. After being arrested for voting illegally in an election, Anthony made a speech entitled “Woman’s Rights to Suffrage.” In this speech, she explains that she was exercising her “citizen’s rights,” the same ones that were promised…

centuries before Housewives, domestic work, teachers- professions considered suitable for women. There were women’s rights movements in both Britain and US, for more rights- marriage rights. ( #1Feminism and Suffarege p.21) There was also a suffragette movement in both countries. Roles/rights Britain: I Early 1800s Roles were the same as they had been for hundreds of years considered inferior, the weaker sex traditional roles- housewife, mother lower classes worked in…

The Women's Suffrage Movement In Britain From the beginning and still to today the human race has never stopped changing. Never has the desire to learn, to discover, and create, been satisfied. Because of our unquenchable thirst for knowledge, understanding, and improvement, our world has undergone spectacular changes. But the role of women was the one thing that never seemed to change. Although the idea of feminism was not…

for women’s suffrage, like myself. Unfortunately, she lacked in boatmanship skills, so I had to direct her how to manage and set up the boat. While we worked, we talked about the pending arrest. “It is cruel how the government can toy with suffragettes like this,” I commented, “What of the right to protest?” “I surmise we don’t count as citizens, Emilia. Not to the United States,” Eliza replied, checking dials. Nodding my head in agreement, I preoccupied myself with wiping down the…