Abstract This paper goes into detail about the struggles women faced back in the 1800’s‚ as well as how they were treated verses men. Women weren’t able to vote‚ work‚ learn‚ and were considered “less powerful” than men. They were strictly known as “mothers” and their job was to take care of their family. In the second and third paragraphs of the paper‚ the author describes that women wanted change‚ and wanted to make an impression on the world. This caused movements and acts to be developed‚ and
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It gives outstanding information on the history of Wonder Woman. Part one is about the personal and academics of William Moulton Marston. Marston was an undergraduate at Harvard. In 1911 he became very driven by the feminist movement due to Emmeline Pankhurst. In the 1920s when he was a freshman‚ Marston and his wife‚ Sadie Elizabeth Holloway.Marston
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declared war on Germany. After that the NUWSS (national union of suffrage societies) decided that all political activity would be suspended until the war was over. Some leaders of the women’s social and political union such as Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughter‚ Christabel Pankhurst‚ played a big role on recruiting young men into the army. When men left their jobs to go to fight overseas‚ they were replaced by women‚ women such as Octavia Wilberforce and Louisa Martindale from Brighton worked as doctors
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The Roles of Women before ‘The Great War’ British society has undergone many changes during the Great War. Significantly‚ the changes had affected many women of all statuses to bring the good for the rights of women and how they eventually obtained their voting rights. Before the Great War‚ Upper Class women in Britain did not work at all‚ where they were known to be caring for their husbands‚ children and of course their homes. Also‚ they had the job of being a housewife; fulfilling the basic essential
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methods used varied from violence to peaceful protest. The predominantly middle class Suffragette movement was well known for its radicalism. The campaign for the female franchise had been slow in progress since the 1860s. However in 1903‚ when Emmeline Pankhurst set up the WSPU (Women’s Social and Political Union)‚ campaigners of women’s suffrage were offered an alternative method of protest- ‘Deeds not words’. The Suffragettes’ destructive behaviour was effective in achieving media attention and aroused
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Strategies: Southern Women and the Woman Suffrage Question (1997); Holton‚ S.‚ Feminism and Democracy: Women ’s Suffrage and Reform Politics in Britain‚ 1900 –1918 (1986); Kraditor‚ A. S.‚ The Idea of the Woman Suffrage Movement‚ 1890 –1920 (1965); Pankhurst‚ Sylvia‚ The Suffragette Movement (1931; repr. 1971); Smith‚ Harold L.‚ The British Women ’s Suffrage Campaign‚ 1866 –1928 (1998); Solomon‚ M. M.‚ ed.‚ Voice of Their Own: The Woman Suffrage Press‚ 1840 –1910 (1991); Stanton‚ Elizabeth Cady‚ et al
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met certain property qualifications) were granted the right to vote in 1918. The suffragettes were very unpopular. Most people believed that women shouldn’t be given the vote. When ‘World War 1’ began in 1914‚ the leader of the Suffragettes‚ Emmeline Pankhurst‚ instructed the women to stop campaigning and instead help the government and its war effort. It was because of all the women’s work during the war that they were granted the right to vote in 1918. Ten years later‚ all women (over the age of
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----------------------- - After 1870‚ government functions expanded to include public education and national systems of welfare - As government responsibilities were enlarged‚ new taxes were imposed to pay for the additional programs. - Western Governments introduced civil service exam to test applicants on the basis of talent rather than on connections on birth alone. - Growing bureauary and improved recruitment‚ governments began to extend their regulatory apparatus‚ inspecting
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shared the same goal; to achieve women’s suffrage in National Elections. However‚ unlike the suffragists‚ the suffragettes preferred to take militant action to gain publicity. It was the WSPU (Women’s Social and Political Union)‚ founded by Emmeline Pankhurst in 1903‚ whose militant actions reflect what society was like between 1886-1914. Members of the WSPU would campaign at by-elections‚ disrupt political meetings and threaten public order by committing offenses such as breaking windows and chaining
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there have been historical examples where civil disobedience turned for the worst when acts committed delayed the goal of the group or person — as was the case when suffragists during the women’s voting movement in the United Kingdom‚ such as Emmeline Pankhurst‚ took to breaking windows‚ vandalizing property‚ and defying the police. Yet defining their actions as civil
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