Evelyn and William De Morgan

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucy Ella Rose
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Women's Liberation ◽  
Women's Suffrage ◽  
Suffrage Movement ◽  
Women’S Liberation ◽  
Creative Partnership ◽  
Women’S Suffrage

Chapter 2 focuses on Evelyn and William De Morgan. It explores the feminist dynamics of the couple’s conjugal creative partnership, their professional creative practices, and the ways in which they supported the women’s suffrage movement and women’s liberation more generally. Evelyn De Morgan signed women’s suffrage petitions, and William De Morgan wrote impassioned letters in support of women’s suffrage. Chapters 1 and 2 show how, for both Mary Watts and Evelyn De Morgan, professional creative practices and partnerships were liberatory strategies through which they achieved and promoted greater female emancipation and empowerment. The Wattses and the De Morgans had a shared agenda for greater gender equality and women’s liberation, which they advocated in their visual and literary work. They can thus be reclaimed as early feminists with coinciding socio-political and aesthetic aims.

Mary and George Watts

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucy Ella Rose
Keyword(s):  
Women's Liberation ◽  
Women's Suffrage ◽  
Suffrage Movement ◽  
Women’S Liberation ◽  
Women's Culture ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Creative Partnership ◽  
Women’S Suffrage

Chapters 1 and 2 explore the Wattses’ and the De Morgans’ progressive socio-political positions as suffragist artists who actively supported and promoted the women’s suffrage movement that gained momentum over the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It shows how they achieved this through their anti-patriarchal conjugal creative partnerships; their professional creative practices; their involvement in suffrage societies and women’s culture; and their works privileging female struggle, power and freedom. Chapter 1 focuses on Mary and George Watts. It explores the feminist dynamics of the couple’s conjugal creative partnership, their professional creative practices, and the ways in which they supported the women’s suffrage movement and women’s liberation more generally. Most notably, Mary Watts convened suffrage meetings at the Wattses’ Surrey studio-home, while George Watts was close friends with – and his art was a source of inspiration for – early feminists.

Problems of authenticity in expressive work

2019 ◽  
pp. 94-111
Author(s):  
Nicholas Owen
Keyword(s):  
Women's Liberation ◽  
Women's Suffrage ◽  
Crossing Over ◽  
Women's Liberation Movement ◽  
Shared Experiences ◽  
Liberation Movement ◽  
Suffrage Movement ◽  
Women’S Liberation ◽  
Women’S Suffrage

Chapter 6 considers work in the expressive orientation, which concerns the articulation and expression of identities. The dilemma is one of authenticity, and it turns on questions of provenance. When the identity is grounded in shared experiences, needs, and desires, the adherent may be well placed to help. When the experiences, needs, and desires are unshared, she is a less possible and less useful ally. Three approaches are distinguished: disjoint “validation,” in which the adherent attests, on the basis of her expertise, that the claimed identity is valid; conjoint “crossing-over” in which the adherent seeks to share the identity-forming experiences of the constituents; and “self-expression,” in which constituents seek to secure their identities alone. The supporting case study for this chapter contrasts the mobilization of male sympathizers in the Edwardian women’s suffrage movement with their demobilization in the Women’s Liberation Movement of the 1970s.

scholarly journals Evaluating the Intersectionality of Women Liberation Movements

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 124
Author(s):  
Jianhua Li
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
Women Of Color ◽  
Women's Liberation ◽  
Women's Suffrage ◽  
Queer Women ◽  
Women’S Liberation ◽  
Liberation Movements ◽  
Feminist Movements ◽  
Women’S Suffrage

The paper focuses on how women’s liberation movements overlook women from minority race groups. The rise of feminism, for example, ignores the unique challenges faced by queer women and women of color. Additionally, women liberation movements do not highlight the plight of women from minority race groups, who are thought of as less feminine. For instance, feminist movements do not highlight the discrimination against black women, who tend to be assertive and confident, traits associated with masculinity. Moreover, women’s suffrage protests were subjects of criticism for segregating women based on race. The paper criticizes the women’s liberation movements take on intersectionality of race, strengthening the need to revisit their primal objectives, particularly feminist campaigns that ought to address plights for vulnerable women in society.

Innovation by Political Outsiders

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben Epstein
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Civil Rights Movement ◽  
Political Communication ◽  
Women's Suffrage ◽  
Wall Street ◽  
Nineteenth Amendment ◽  
Suffrage Movement ◽  
Communication Goals ◽  
Print Era ◽  
Women’S Suffrage

This chapter explores communication innovations made by American social movements over time. These movements share political communication goals and outsider status, which helps to connect innovation decisions across movements and across time. The chapter primarily explores two long-lasting movements. First is the women’s suffrage movement, which lasted over seventy years of the print era from the mid-nineteenth century until the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. Next is the long-lasting fight against racial discrimination, which led to the modern civil rights movement starting in the print era, but coming of age along with television during the 1950s and 1960s. Both the women’s suffrage movement and civil rights movement utilized innovative tactics with similarly mild results until mainstream coverage improved. Finally, these historical movements are compared with movements emerging during the internet era, including the early Tea Party, Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter, and the Resist movement.

The Cold, Dark River

2021 ◽  
pp. 304-332
Author(s):  
Christopher Grasso
Keyword(s):  
Monetary Policy ◽  
Sexual Problems ◽  
Women's Suffrage ◽  
School Building ◽  
Large School ◽  
Suffrage Movement ◽  
Women’S Suffrage

After serving in Congress, Kelso resolved to open his own academy in Springfield. He supported the women’s suffrage movement in town. But he had borrowed heavily to build a large school building, and when few students enrolled, he was financially ruined. He ran for Congress again in 1868, but in a bitter campaign focused on monetary policy and filled with dirty tricks, he floundered and was badly beaten by his old nemesis, Pony Boyd. All of this only added to the strain of his marriage, already plagued by sexual problems and mutual jealousies. Kelso’s great tragedy, however, was not financial, political, or marital. In early September, 1870, his five-year-old son died suddenly from tetanus after stepping on a rusty rake. Only two weeks later, his fourteen-year-old son committed suicide. Kelso was shattered. The following year, his marriage in ruins, he took his eldest daughter Florella and headed west.

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