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Marie Stopes in her laboratory, 1904. Eugenic feminism was a current of the women's suffrage movement which overlapped with eugenics. [1] Originally coined by the Lebanese-British physician and vocal eugenicist Caleb Saleeby, [2] [3] [4] the term has since been applied to summarize views held by prominent feminists of Great Britain and the United States.
Despite that Ecuador granted women suffrage in 1929, which was earlier than most independent countries in Latin America (except for Uruguay, which granted women suffrage in 1917), differences between men's and women's suffrage in Ecuador were only removed in 1967 (before 1967 women's vote was optional, while that of men was compulsory; since ...
[2] [3] In 1906, a reporter writing in the Daily Mail coined the term suffragette for the WSPU, derived from suffragist α (any person advocating for voting rights), in order to belittle the women advocating women's suffrage. [4] The militants embraced the new name, even adopting it for use as the title of the newspaper published by the WSPU. [4]
Eunice Murray (1878–1960) – suffragist, and only Scottish woman who stood for election when UK elections were opened to women in 1918; Flora Murray (1869–1923) – medical pioneer and activist; Frances Murray (1843–1919) – a suffragist raised in Scotland, an advocate of women's education, a lecturer in Scottish music and a writer
A suffragette arrested in the street by two police officers in London in 1914. 1818: Jeremy Bentham advocates female suffrage in his book A Plan for Parliamentary Reform. The Vestries Act 1818 allowed some single women to vote in parish vestry elections. [9] 1832: Great Reform Act – confirmed the exclusion of women from the electorate.
This list of suffragists and suffragettes includes noted individuals active in the worldwide women's suffrage movement who have campaigned or strongly advocated for women's suffrage, the organisations which they formed or joined, and the publications which publicized – and, in some nations, continue to publicize– their goals.
As well as justifying the actions of Suffragettes, the Militant school also posits that it was Suffragettes alone who ensured the success of the Suffrage campaign. Suffragette Annie Kenney said that at the time of the militant split, there was “no living interest in the question” of votes for women amongst the British public, rendering the ...
A Book of Rhymes for Suffrage Times is the title of the collection of satirical poems published on June 12, 1915 [1] by suffragist Alice Duer Miller. [2] Many of the poems in this collection were originally released individually in the New York Tribune between February 4, 1913 to November 4, 1917.