7. The Vote? Surely women would get the vote in all elections soon? NO. With a vastly improved education and some relaxation on access to work came the realisation that it was the right to vote, or suffrage, in all elections which was the key to universal equality. It was also this right that institutions and governments were least willing to give up. A struggle would result in which women would die. Universal Suffrage is another term for this right in all elections Those who would take part in the struggle would be known as either Suffragists or Suffragettes
8. BUT FIRST!!! Are you a Suffragist or a Suffragette? Complete this questionnaire and find out
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Editor's Notes
“ The other F-word”
A definition of feminism is really broad. You have to look at the socio-religious-historical climate for the particular group you are looking at in order to do so. Feminists in 1850 would define themselves differently than a feminist today.
The cartoon suggests that god (a women here) made women but the knitting of her implies a gender. Knitting associated with women might be ascribing a gender role to women from creation. What might those role be? Does that role go beyond childbirth?
Suffragette may need defining. The cartoon suggests that if women vote, work, protest for the right to vote the homes will be neglected – see the mess and motherless kids and man thinking “what do I do, surely I can’t be expected to do some work around the house?”
Women could only vote in local elections and local elections cannot legislate on issue important to women. The “match girls strike” was a strike at factories that made matches with sulphur . All the workers were women and the fumes destroyed their bodies. They struck (get it) to improve working conditions. It showed that women could enact change if they worked together. But they had to work at it because no one was going to give it to them.
Suffragists and Suffragettes sound similar but have totally different approaches to reach their goal.
The paper suggests that women were as capable of doing anything men could do such a go to the North Pole like Peary. She is wearing a fur coat for warmth. Nothing else is implied there it is just what people wore in severe cold back then. The suffragists are peaceful protesters.
The Suffragettes are much more aggressive. They can be violent protesters. See how they are treating the police officer.
The calm one is the suffragist, the angry one is the suffragette. The suffragist titled The Sensible Woman is saying “YOU help our cause? You’re its worst enemy!” The suffragette is called The Shrieking Sister.
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