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A suffragette was a member of an activist women's ... Stung by the stereotypical image of the strong minded woman in masculine clothes created by newspaper ...
The WSPU stopped publishing The Suffragette, and in April 1915 it launched a new journal, Britannia. While the majority of WSPU members supported the war, a small number formed the Suffragettes of the Women's Social Political Union (SWSPU) and the Independent Women's Social and Political Union (IWSPU), led by Charlotte Marsh , and including ...
American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA), created in 1869. [1] [2] College Equal Suffrage League. [3] Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage. [4] Equal Franchise Society. [5] The Men's League. [6] National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA), created in 1890 through the merger of AWSA and NWSA. [1] National Woman Suffrage Association ...
Anti-suffrage forces, initially called the "remonstrants", organized as early as 1870 when the Woman's Anti-Suffrage Association of Washington was formed. [184] Widely known as the "antis", they eventually created organizations in some twenty states. In 1911, the National Association Opposed to Women's Suffrage was created.
The Masculinist school is so-titled by Suffragette historian Sandra Stanley Holton because it is a male-constructed addition to the historiography of Suffragettes, depicting them as a women's political movement that was, by its existence, an aberration from traditional male politics which would have by itself overseen the granting of female ...
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.
Violet Aitken (1886–1987) – suffragette activist in the WSPU, imprisoned and force-fed, editor of The Suffragette; Margaret Aldersley (1852–1940) – suffragist, feminist and trade unionist; Mary Ann Aldham (1858–1940) – famously slashed a portrait in the Royal Academy in 1914
Emmeline Pankhurst (/ ˈ p æ ŋ k h ɜːr s t /; [1] née Goulden; 15 July 1858 – 14 June 1928) was a British political activist [2] who organised the British suffragette movement and helped women to win in 1918 the right to vote in Great Britain and Ireland.