An International Comparison of Women’s Suffrage: The Cases of Finland and New Zealand in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century

2015 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 88-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irma Sulkunen
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
International Comparison ◽  
Women's Suffrage ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
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.

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.

Imagining Women’s Suffrage

2018 ◽  
Vol 87 (4) ◽  
pp. 638-666 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Stevenson
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Print Culture ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Political ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Women's Suffrage ◽  
Transnational Connections ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Women’S Suffrage

During the late nineteenth century, the print culture associated with women’s suffrage exhibited increasingly transnational connections. Between the 1870s and 1890s, suffragists in the United States, and then Australia and New Zealand, celebrated the early enfranchisement of women in the U.S. West. After the enfranchisement of antipodean women at the turn of the twentieth century, American suffragists in turn gained inspiration from New Zealand and Australia. In the process, suffrage print culture focused on the political and social possibilities associated with the frontier landscapes that defined these regions. However, by envisioning such landscapes as engendering white women’s freedom, suffrage print culture conceptually excluded Indigenous peoples from its visions of enfranchisement. The imaginative connections fostered in transnational suffrage print culture further encouraged actual transpacific connections between the suffragists themselves.

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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