Aletta, woman in her own right

2021 ◽  
pp. 41-53
Author(s):  
A. J. Kox ◽  
H. F. Schatz
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Small Town ◽  
Feminist Movement ◽  
Women's Suffrage ◽  
Paid Work ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Women’S Suffrage

Chapter 3 explains why it is valuable to devote a separate chapter to Aletta Lorentz Kaiser. It describes Aletta’s life and intelligent and ambitious personality and highlights the position of Dutch women more generally in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The chapter first focuses on the limitations of Aletta’s position as a professor’s wife in small-town Leiden, unable to do any paid work herself and constrained to being “the woman behind the important man.” It shows how she managed to circumvent these constraints and how she was able to carve out a position for herself, first in charitable work on behalf of needy women and later in the early Dutch feminist movement and the national struggle for women’s suffrage.

scholarly journals THE BRITISH WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT AND THE PRACTICE OF PETITIONING, 1890–1914

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-25
Author(s):  
HENRY MILLER
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Political Culture ◽  
Direct Action ◽  
Women's Suffrage ◽  
Popular Politics ◽  
Pressure Groups ◽  
Suffrage Movement ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Women’S Suffrage

Abstract Through an examination of the women's suffrage movement, this article reassesses the place of petitioning within late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British political culture. While critical of their Victorian predecessors’ reliance on petitions, the Edwardian women's suffrage movement did not abandon petitioning, but reinvented it. Rather than presenting a polarized view of relations between suffragettes and suffragists, the article shows how both operated on a spectrum of direct action politics through petitioning. Militants and constitutionalists pioneered new, although different, modes of petitioning that underpinned broader repertoires of popular politics, adapting this venerable practice to a nascent mass democracy. The article then situates suffrage campaigners’ reinvention of petitioning within a broader political context. The apparent decline of petitioning, long noted by scholars, is reframed as the waning of the classic model of mass petitioning parliament associated with Victorian pressure groups. The early twentieth century was a crucial period for the reshaping of petitioning as a tool for political participation and expression through myriad subscriptional forms, rather than primarily through the medium of parliamentary petitions.

scholarly journals “Foreigners in Town”: Leisure, Consumption, and Cosmopolitanism in Late-Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth Century Tillsonburg, Ontario1

2013 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 215-247
Author(s):  
Rebecca Beausaert
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Small Town ◽  
Leisure Activities ◽  
Small Towns ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Ethnic Food ◽  
The Face ◽  
Late Nineteenth

At the turn of the twentieth century, the small town of Tillsonburg, Ontario contained a population that was over eighty-six percent Anglo-Celtic in origin. Increasingly, however, local leisure activities began to incorporate “ethnic” food, dress, and mannerisms so that citizens could momentarily become “foreigners” and “consume” knowledge of other nations and peoples. Two of the more notable venues where participants acted out racialized identities—the “Garden Party of the Nations” and the Ladies’ Travel Club—showcase desires to consume markers of foreignness while concurrently displaying an acceptance of these cultures. Using Tillsonburg as a case study, this article examines how engaging with the “foreign” in patterns of leisure and consumption was a way for citizens (and women in particular) to convey an air of cosmopolitanism and cultural refinement in the face of critiques that small towns were insular and unsophisticated. Their cultural appropriations, however, represent grossly distorted understandings of races, ethnicities, and cultures that existed outside their Euro-Canadian one. Though efforts by Tillsonburg’s populace to appear more cosmopolitan were grounded in a desire to expand understandings of “the foreign,” this occurred only on their own terms and in controlled spaces.

Faeries, Aliens, and Leviathans: Science and Fantasy in Ian McDonald's King of Morning, Queen of Day

2019 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 290-303
Author(s):  
Richard Howard
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
National Identity ◽  
Science Fiction ◽  
Science Studies ◽  
Irish Studies ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Politics And Religion ◽  
Unexplored Area ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Cultural Movement

Irish science fiction is a relatively unexplored area for Irish Studies, a situation partially rectified by the publication of Jack Fennell's Irish Science Fiction in 2014. This article aims to continue the conversation begun by Fennell's intervention by analysing the work of Belfast science fiction author Ian McDonald, in particular King of Morning, Queen of Day (1991), the first novel in what McDonald calls his Irish trilogy. The article explores how McDonald's text interrogates the intersection between science, politics, and religion, as well as the cultural movement that was informing a growing sense of a continuous Irish national identity. It draws from the discipline of Science Studies, in particular the work of Nicholas Whyte, who writes of the ways in which science and colonialism interacted in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Ireland.

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