Are You With Us? : A Study of the Hoosier Suffrage Movement, 1844-1920

Are You With Us? challenges longstanding assumptions about Hoosier women\u27s political activism by examining participation within the state suffrage movement. Indiana women\u27s history- and especially this topic- is largely overlooked by historians. Existing scholarship on this subject is limited and out-dated; moreover, such research concludes that Hoosier women were ladylike reformers. That is, they were respectable, conservative, and did not desire too much public attention. Because of this, one might think that Hoosier women avoided the campaign for suffrage; yet, my archival research has shown that many women in Indiana were active and dedicated participants. In addition, there were numerous suffragists who were not ladylike reformers. Instead, they were radical, African-American, and from the working class or rural areas. My project highlights the diversity of the Hoosier suffrage movement while simultaneously expanding the narrow field of Indiana women\u27s history

‘Going on with our little movement in the hum drum-way which alone is possible in a land like this’: Olive Schreiner and suffrage networks in Britain and South Africa, 1905-1913

This article explores the letters of South African feminist writer Olive Schreiner (1855–1920) to illuminate connections and tensions between suffrage movements in the imperial metropole and on the colonial periphery. Schreiner's letters shed fascinating light on how she used her contacts in the global suffrage movement to advance local suffrage work. They indicate key differences Schreiner identified between the British and South African suffrage movements, including that the latter should be focused on educating women to want the vote. Schreiner's emphasis on universal suffrage also brought her into conflict with local suffrage organisations which were willing to accept a racial franchise, and also with key figures in the international suffrage movement

PERANAN ALICE PAUL DALAM MEMPEROLEH HAK SUARA BAGI WANITA DI AMERIKA SERIKAT (1910-1920)

Penelitian ini membahas mengenai peran seorang tokoh bernama Alice Paul dalam pergerakan suffrage atau pergerakan menuntut hak suara bagi wanita di Amerika Serikat. Permasalahan dalam penelitian ini ialah mengenai bagaimana latar belakang dari tokoh tersebut sehingga ia menjadi seorang aktifis suffrage, hal-hal yang ia lakukan dalam pergerakannya, serta dampak dari pergerakannya terhadap kehidupan kaum wanita di negara tersebut. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini ialah metode historis. Dalam metode historis terdapat langkah-langkah yang harus dilakukan, yaitu heuristik, kritik, interpretasi dan historiografi. Dalam mengkaji permasalahan penulis menggunakan pendekatan interdisipliner, dengan meminjam konsep-konsep dari ilmu sosiologi, politik dan psikologi. Sejak kemerdekaannya Amerika Serikat tidak memberikan hak suara bagi kaum wanita. Padahal Negara tersebut sangat menjunjung tinggi kebebasan dan hak individu warganya. Pergerakan suffrage di Amerika Serikat sebenarnya telah ada sejak pertengahan abad ke-19. Akan tetapi gerakan tersebut tidak mendapatkan hasil yang signifikan, hingga memasuki awal abad ke-20. Alice Paul mulai aktif dalam pergerakan suffrage pada tahun 1900-an. Metode pergerakannya dinilai sangat militan, karena itu ia seringkali mendapat kritikan dari masyarakat maupun dari sesama aktifis suffrage disana. Akan tetap metode pergerakannya telah memberikan kemenangan bagi gerakan suffrage di Negara tersebut. Kata kunci: Alice Paul, pergerakan Suffrage, Hak suara This research is about the role of who named Alice Paul in suffrage movement in the United State. The problem in this research is how the background of her life and her society until she become a suffragist, everything she did in her movement, and the impact of her movement for the women in United State. The method of this research is historical method. The steps of this method is include heuristic, critic, interpretation and historiography. To investigate the problem of this research the author used interdisciplinary approachment. She used a concepts of sociology, politic, and psychology. Since the independence day United State didn’t give woman right to vote, whereas they are really hold in the high esteem about the liberty and individual right of their citizen. That matter is attached in their declaration of independence. The suffrage movement had been existed in the United State since in the middle of 19th century, but the movement doesn’t have any significant result until early of 20th century. Alice Paul begin active in the suffrage movement is in early 20th century. The method of her movement is assessed very militant, so she often obtained critical from the people and the other suffragist. But her movement was gave the victory to the suffrage movement at the state. Key Word: Alice Paul, Suffrage Movement, Right to Vot

Висвітлення проблеми надання жінкам виборчих прав у засобах масової інформації Великої Британії (1905–1913 рр.) (The Illumination of the Women’s Suffrage Problem in the Mass Media of Great Britain (1905–1913))

У статті досліджуються особливості взаємодії активістів жіночого руху та британських політичних сил у контексті боротьби за надання жінкам виборчих прав. Акцентується увага на ключових позиціях у відображенні засобами масової інформації політичного нерівноправ’я жінки та діяльності суфражистського руху у Великій Британії. (In the modern world, on the wave of revision of traditional stereotypes through the prism of gender analysis, the views about the place of women in society are undergoing significant changes. In this context, the history of the struggle for women’s suffrage appears in the new light, and therefore requires a deeper analysis. British suffrage movement is a unique phenomenon in British history. Due to the increased activity of the suffrage campaigners in the first decades of the XX century, they could not stay out of view of society. First of all, they had attracted attention of the mass media. The peculiarities of interaction between activists of the women’s movement and British political power in the context of the struggle for women’s suffrage have been studied. Attention is accented on the key positions of reflection by mass media of the women’s political inequality and the suffrage movement activity in Great Britain. The investigation is based on the analysis of British periodicals. The author concludes that in addition to coverage of the major events in the House of Commons, public suffrage meetings and results of polling on the suffrage question, the struggle for women’s right to vote is reflected in the cartoons. Their content was depended on the positions of editorial boards, their authors and state policy. Often in these cartoons women were laughed at and their claims were pointed as «absurdity». Particular criticism has undergone the militant wing of the suffrage movement. The reasons of the failures that have befallen the suffrage bills in 1905–1913 include:1) inconsistent views of political parties and individual MPs on the terms of women’s enfranchisement; 2) there were other urgent problems to resolve (for example, Home Rule for Ireland); 3) fears that women, due to their numerical superiority in the population, will have a greater impact on the formation of the British Parliament than men have had, and will be able to become MPs; 3) opposition of the Prime Minister Herbert Asquith to the claims of the suffrage campaigners; 4) opposition of the part of British society (both men and women) to proposed changes.

The argument of the broken pane: Suffragette consumerism and newspapers

Within the cut-throat world of newspaper advertising the newspapers of Britain's Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) Votes for Women and the Suffragette managed to achieve a balance that has often proved to be an impossible challenge for social movement press—namely the maintenance of a highly political stance whilst simultaneously exploiting the market system with advertising and merchandising. When the militant papers advocated window smashing of West End stores in 1912–1913, the companies who were the target still took advertisements. Why? What was the relationship between news values, militant violence and advertising income? ‘Do-it-yourself’ journalism operated within a context of ethical consumerism and promotionally orientated militancy. This resulted in newspaper connections between politics, commerce and a distinct market profile, evident in the customisation of advertising, retailer dialogue with militants and longer-term loyalty—symptomatic of a wider trend towards newspaper commercialism during this period

A Slip of Paper in a Black Walnut Box: An Examination of the Suffrage Debate in Beverly, Massachusetts 1913-1915

It was not until 1920, 72 years after the birth of the suffrage movement, that Massachusetts women gained the right to vote. While other state suffrage associations succeeded in persuading their governments to pass laws securing the vote for women, Massachusetts reformers were met with an overwhelming amount of resistance. The forces behind much of this resistance were the white, middle-class women active in small cities and towns throughout the Commonwealth. Women in support, as well as in opposition, to suffrage in Massachusetts at the turn-of-the twentieth century were the same women swept up in the changing gender roles of the time. It was this confusing social, and in turn, political climate in Massachusetts that created some of the most dynamic and fascinating suffrage discourse in the nation. And there is no better place to find this rich dialogue than in the primary sources of the small cities and towns of Massachusetts. It is the small historical societies of towns like Beverly, MA that provide insight into the complexity of the local suffrage debate

Queen Caroline’s pains and penalties: Silence and speech in the dramatic art of British women’s suffrage

In Britain, the act that launched the militant campaign of the suffragettes in 1905 was the interruption of a political meeting in Manchester. The violent silencing and arrest of the women ensued. The women’s suffrage campaigns in Britain became more vigorous in the early twentieth century. They frequently foregrounded the oppressive silencing of women in their political speeches at public meetings, in newspapers, and in the courts. Having deliberately sought arrest, some militant suffrage activists exploited the arena of the court room to expound on their political position. In various audacious and spectacular ways, the exclusion of women from the democratic process was challenged, not least by a sustained attack on the legal system. Drama, one of the more successful cultural forms of protest, was often used to expose the inequities of the existing social fabric, and as an aesthetic form it deploys the body as well as the voice. This paper will examine the forceful, anti-rhetorical function of silence in British women’s suffrage drama from the early twentieth century, focusing on the appropriation of Queen Caroline (1768–1821) as a silent proto-suffragette in Pains and Penalties, a play about her trial, written by Laurence Housman (1865–1959) and directed by Edith Craig for the Pioneer Players theatre society

Hong Kong\u27s democratic movement and the making of China\u27s offshore civil society

Hong Kong\u27s civil society has remained vibrant since the sovereignty handover in 1997, thanks to an active defense by the democratic movement against Beijing\u27s attempts to control civil liberties. Hong Kong is becoming mainland China\u27s offshore civil society, serving as a free platform for information circulation and organizing among mainland activists and intellectuals

Forgotten feminists: the Federation of British Professional and Business Women, 1933-1969

Using archive documents of the British Federation of Business and Professional Women (BFBPW) this article explores the role of this early business organisation in campaigning for feminist issues in the post-war period. It argues that the BFBPW is indicative of the complexities of the women’s movement in the post-suffrage era when it fragmented into interconnecting campaigning organisations around a multitude of women’s issues. The article suggests that businesswomen in this period acted in ways that anticipated modern ‘femocratic’ practice in the way they sought to use business networks to gain access to parliamentary policy networks