Emmline Pankhurst was a suffragette fed up with peaceful marching‚ and frustrated. Pankhurst resolved to using militant tactics‚ attacks‚ and even arson. Whilst these tactics gained the movement severe disapproval‚ they were effective in gaining attention. Another example is the the death of Emily Davison who stood in front of the King’s horse at the derby of 1913. Whilst suffragettes like Pankhurst felt that this elf sacrifice was the only way to put
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name was Emmeline Pankhurst‚ and the other three girl’s names were Christabel‚ Sylvia‚ and Adela. These four members left the suffragists association in 1903 and made their own association named the Women’s Social and Political Union. This association solved things more by actions than by words. The Suffragettes just made others angry and they also damaged all over the place where they were present. They would also go on assemblages protesting‚ and damaging businesses. Emmeline Pankhurst seems like
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of course‚ whatever is illegal must be what is against inscribed law. Is that so? Take this instance. You have Emmeline Pankhurst‚ a well known suffragette figure‚ facing arrest for perhaps blocking a side of a street during a protest while raising awareness about a petition. This action is viewed by the state as illegal‚ although‚ whose actions were really criminal? Those of Emmeline‚ or those of the state? “Just because the criminal happens to be in a position to call your action ‘illegal‚’ that
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Abstract This paper goes into detail about the struggles women faced back in the 1800’s‚ as well as how they were treated verses men. Women weren’t able to vote‚ work‚ learn‚ and were considered “less powerful” than men. They were strictly known as “mothers” and their job was to take care of their family. In the second and third paragraphs of the paper‚ the author describes that women wanted change‚ and wanted to make an impression on the world. This caused movements and acts to be developed‚ and
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declared war on Germany. After that the NUWSS (national union of suffrage societies) decided that all political activity would be suspended until the war was over. Some leaders of the women’s social and political union such as Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughter‚ Christabel Pankhurst‚ played a big role on recruiting young men into the army. When men left their jobs to go to fight overseas‚ they were replaced by women‚ women such as Octavia Wilberforce and Louisa Martindale from Brighton worked as doctors
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It gives outstanding information on the history of Wonder Woman. Part one is about the personal and academics of William Moulton Marston. Marston was an undergraduate at Harvard. In 1911 he became very driven by the feminist movement due to Emmeline Pankhurst. In the 1920s when he was a freshman‚ Marston and his wife‚ Sadie Elizabeth Holloway.Marston
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The Roles of Women before ‘The Great War’ British society has undergone many changes during the Great War. Significantly‚ the changes had affected many women of all statuses to bring the good for the rights of women and how they eventually obtained their voting rights. Before the Great War‚ Upper Class women in Britain did not work at all‚ where they were known to be caring for their husbands‚ children and of course their homes. Also‚ they had the job of being a housewife; fulfilling the basic essential
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methods used varied from violence to peaceful protest. The predominantly middle class Suffragette movement was well known for its radicalism. The campaign for the female franchise had been slow in progress since the 1860s. However in 1903‚ when Emmeline Pankhurst set up the WSPU (Women’s Social and Political Union)‚ campaigners of women’s suffrage were offered an alternative method of protest- ‘Deeds not words’. The Suffragettes’ destructive behaviour was effective in achieving media attention and aroused
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met certain property qualifications) were granted the right to vote in 1918. The suffragettes were very unpopular. Most people believed that women shouldn’t be given the vote. When ‘World War 1’ began in 1914‚ the leader of the Suffragettes‚ Emmeline Pankhurst‚ instructed the women to stop campaigning and instead help the government and its war effort. It was because of all the women’s work during the war that they were granted the right to vote in 1918. Ten years later‚ all women (over the age of
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