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The first organised movement for British women's suffrage was the Langham Place Circle of the 1850s, led by Barbara Bodichon (née Leigh-Smith) and Bessie Rayner Parkes. They also campaigned for improved female rights in the law, employment, education, and marriage.
1882: The Married Women's Property Act 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c.75) was an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom that significantly altered English law regarding the property rights of married women, which besides other matters allowed married women to own and control property in their own right. The Act applied in England (and Wales) and ...
Gender and development is an interdisciplinary field of research and applied study that implements a feminist approach to understanding and addressing the disparate impact that economic development and globalization have on people based upon their location, gender, class background, and other socio-political identities.
In 1973, black British women organised the Brixton Black Women's Group to focus on education and contraceptive issues in their community. [11] [45] [46] Women who were former British Black Panthers, such as Olive Morris, Beverly Bryan and Liz Obi, were involved in this group. The organisation was the first black women's group in the UK. [46]
Inherent in the study of women's history is the belief that more traditional recordings of history have minimised or ignored the contributions of women to different fields and the effect that historical events had on women as a whole; in this respect, women's history is often a form of historical revisionism, seeking to challenge or expand the ...
Female-led relationships (FLRs) are heterosexual relationships based on a power imbalance in which women exercise dominance and control over male partners. So, What Exactly Is a Female-Led ...
In 1970, the call to conference of the Women's Liberation Movement was held to raise awareness. The four main concerns addressed were equal pay between genders, providing fair education and job opportunities for women, coverage of abortion and contraception, and availability of 24-hour nurseries – free of charge. [2]
Passions Between Women: British Lesbian Culture 1668-1801 is a scholarly monograph by Emma Donoghue, which collects written descriptions of lesbian relationships in early modern Britain. [1] It was first published in the UK 1993 by Scarlet Press, and reprinted in the US in 1996 by Harper Perennial .