Only those who do not understand the radical difference between the movement of socialist women and bourgeois suffragettes can think this way. |
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The suffragettes had to fight to get the vote for women and in South Africa, coloured people were treated worse than animals. |
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Her house was a congregation for many of her activist friends, including the famous suffragettes Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott. |
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In prison she went on hunger strikes, a tactic favoured by many of the suffragettes, as a hunger strike meant release from jail. |
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From the suffragettes to the poll tax the only kind of protest that appears to get noticed is violent protest. |
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Hunger strikers no longer feel obliged to duplicate the gravitas of such famous trailblazers as the suffragettes and Gandhi. |
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The monuments and statues throughout the country commemorate generals, judges and politicians, rather than socialists, strikers or suffragettes. |
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The suffragettes claimed their place in social history by fighting for women to get the vote. |
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Unwilling to release all the imprisoned suffragettes, the prison authorities force-fed these women on hunger strike. |
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Abolitionists, freethinkers, and suffragettes found spiritual innovation compatible with their quest for social reform. |
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As these young babes came squalling into the world, the suffragettes were in full cry, campaigning for a say in running the country. |
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The suffragettes donned red lipstick as a feminist statement at a time when only tarts and actresses wore the old war paint. |
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Interestingly enough, this was centered on many Protestant woman suffragettes who by law voted in school committee elections but were denied the vote for other city offices. |
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Pride in the Empire, support for the war, even support for the suffragettes. |
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In the tradition of the suffragettes, Ms. Duckworth took care of her family while working tirelessly towards peace and justice. |
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It was the age of the suffragettes. In England, they organized hunger strikes and raucous demonstrations to win suffrage, or the right to vote. |
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Let us remind ourselves of the suffragettes who fought for the formal recognition of women's political rights. |
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In 1922, and from1927 until victory was finally achieved, suffragettes literally marched on Québec City. |
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Or the England of the freeborn radical, the Levellers, Chartists, Tolpuddle martyrs and suffragettes? |
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But comparing these people with our low-turnout, low-commitment electorate, I felt the Chartists and suffragettes would recognise them as fellow spirits. |
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It includes civil disobedience, employed by protest movements ranging from the suffragettes to tax justice campaigners. |
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You can recall the Chartists and the suffragettes, but vote refuseniks have their own bad reasons. |
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Since then, suffragettes like Nellie McClung have worked diligently to right these wrongs. |
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British suffragists and suffragettes discovered that renewed though it was, the Liberal Party that returned to office in 1906 in no sense had votes for women on the agenda. |
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Her book is a decade by decade illustrated survey of the changing role of women in the twentieth century, from the suffragettes to the modern executive. |
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In 1851, ex-slave Sojourner Truth addressed a convention of white suffragettes and white ministers debating which issue was more important, abolition or women's suffrage. |
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Like it or not, the activists are the suffragettes of the day and, as with the campaigners for women's votes, they attract fear, loathing and scorn in equal measure. |
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In 1888, Dr. Stowe attended an international conference of suffragettes in Washington, D. C. She returned home to revitalize the women's movement in Canada and continued the fight to win the vote for women. |
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In parallel to their work on suffragettes, students had to look up the first woman who was able to vote in their family and write a few lines about her. |
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Political agitation at home from radicals such as the Chartists and the suffragettes enabled legislative reform and universal suffrage. |
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After a public backlash regarding the prison status of suffragettes, the rules of the divisions were amended. |
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Opinion amongst historians today is divided as to whether the militant tactics of the suffragettes helped or hindered their cause. |
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In 1909 the WSPU presented specially commissioned pieces of jewellery to leading suffragettes Emmeline Pankhurst and Louise Eates. |
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His term was controversial after his responses to the Cambrian Colliery dispute, the Siege of Sidney Street and the suffragettes. |
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This was the goal of the suffragists in the United States and the suffragettes in Great Britain. |
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The suffragettes, or female suffragists, of this era were unprecedentedly organized, vocal, and at times, disruptive in their efforts to protest the inequality that women faced. |
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The UK parliament has also created this fact file and debate-based lesson plan that looks at the controversial methods employed by the suffragettes in the fight to secure the vote. |
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The suffragettes would have hung, drawn and quartered Brand. |
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The suffragettes got us the vote and they did it in whalebone corsets. |
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I mentioned earlier the efforts of the suffragettes at the beginning of the last century and how their determination and insistence led to the recognition of women as full citizens in our electoral system. |
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It describes the specific political background in the different countries and looks at the methods and strategies pursued by the suffragettes to gain the right to vote. |
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Many suffragists at the time, and most historians since, have argued that the actions of the militant suffragettes damaged their cause. |
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Many of her fellow suffragettes were imprisoned and refused food as a scare tactic against the government. |
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The WSPU campaigned to get imprisoned suffragettes recognized as political prisoners. |
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Despite the practice being deemed safe by medical practitioners for sick patients, it posed health issues for the healthy suffragettes. |
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Searle says the methods of the suffragettes did succeed in damaging the Liberal party but failed to advance the cause of women's suffrage. |
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Some radical techniques used by the suffragettes, especially hunger strikes, were learned from Russian exiles from tsarism who had escaped to England. |
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Dunlop's strategy was adopted by other suffragettes who were incarcerated. |
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Suffrage did come four years later, but the feminist movement in Britain permanently abandoned the militant tactics that had made the suffragettes famous. |
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Suffragettes were jailed for offences ranging from disrupting political meetings or refusing to pay taxes, to assault. |
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Suffragettes became a liability because if they were to die in custody, the prison would be responsible for their death. |
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Suffragettes are also believed to have attacked the Orchard house, also at Kew Gardens however no definitive proof was found. |
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Suffragettes were refused the right to be recognised as political prisoners and many of them staged hunger strikes while they were imprisoned. |
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Dr Hugh Ferguson Watson, an ambitious doctor working in the prison service, was the only man in Scotland willing to force-feed Suffragettes on hunger strike. |
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The Tea House at Kew Gardens was set alight by Suffragettes Olive Wharry and Lillian Lenton in February 1913 during a series of arson attacks that occurred throughout London. |
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