Woman Suffrage

The contexts of national and gender belonging in the history of female suffrage in Slovakia

by Ľubica Kobová

Forthcoming in The contexts of national and gender belonging in the history of female suffrage in Slovakia. In: RUIZ, Blanca Rodríguez & Ruth Rubio MARÍN, Eds. The conquest of female suffrage in Europe. Leiden: Brill, pp. 225 - 239.

Women living in today Slovakia gained sufffrage in 1920, with the Constitutional Bill (Act 121/1920) of the newly... more Women living in today Slovakia gained sufffrage in 1920, with the Constitutional Bill (Act 121/1920) of the newly established state of Czechoslovakia. Neither the women’s movement nor the sufffrage movement can take exclusive or even primary credit for women’s sufffrage there, however, as wider societal and political processes of democratic nationand state-building were decisive. This chapter explores these processes.

„Mut des Wortes – Mut der Tat“. Weibliche Bühnen des Wissens in einem „deutschen“ Prag der ersten Republik. In: ÖZG – Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften. Bd. Geschlecht-Wissen-Geschichte 21, 1 (2010) S. 118-142.

by Stefan Benedik

The Life and Times of Frank Hague (Radio documentary)

by David Cohen

This is the script of a radio documentary written and produced by David Steven Cohen and Marty Goldensohn.  You can listen to the program online at www.talkinghistory.org/cohen.html

Frank Hague was the Irish-American mayor of Jersey City, NJ, from 1917 to 1947. He grew up as a street tought inf the... more Frank Hague was the Irish-American mayor of Jersey City, NJ, from 1917 to 1947. He grew up as a street tought inf the Horseshoe District, which was the district gerrandered to keep the Irish from obtaining political power.  Hague become a political boss under the city commission form of government. During his many administrations he controlled the courts and even hand-picked the governor of New Jersey.  His support of Franklin Delano Roosevelt provided him with additional patronage through federally funded programs. However, returning World War II veterans did not want to take orders from an old fashioned Irish political boss, and Hague lost control of the courts under the revised New Jersey State Constitution of 1947.

Feminists and femininity: A case-study of WSPU propaganda and local response at a Scottish by-election

by Lindy Moore

Women's Studies International Forum, 5 (6) 1982, 675-684.

Herabai Tata and Sophia Duleep Singh: Suffragette Resistances for India and Britain 1910-1920

by Sumita Mukherjee

In Rehana Ahmed and Sumita Mukherjee (eds), South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858-1947 (Continuum, 2011)

VIVÊNCIAS DA INFIDELIDADE CONJUGAL FEMININA

by Thiago de Almeida

A infidelidade provoca as mais variadas emoções e reações entre parceiros
que a vivenciam. O presente estudo busca compreender significados da infidelidade para mulheres que já foram infiéis na relação conjugal. Este
estudo utilizou o método qualitativo de pesquisa, e o instrumento de coleta
de dados foi entrevista semi-estruturada. Participaram desta pesquisa cinco
mulheres com faixa etária variando entre 30 e 38 anos. A análise dos resultados propiciou a estas categorias: 1) A frustração e a insatisfação na relação conjugal; 2) O envolvimento emocional como justificativa para a infidelidade; 3) A dupla moral sexual; 4) A culpa e o arrependimento pela infidelidade; 5) O prazer na relação extraconjugal; 6) A infidelidade culminando na separação conjugal. Os resultados evidenciaram que a insatisfação dessas mulheres com seus relacionamentos e o fato delas encontrarem em outros homens atributos que não eram percebidos em seus parceiros, as levam a um novo envolvimento afetivossexual. Também foi relatado o sentimento de culpa em função da discriminação e do julgamento que a sociedade faz com as mulheres infiéis. Os conhecimentos dos significados da infidelidade apontados nesta pesquisa podem ser úteis ao campo da Psicologia para auxiliar na vivência destas mulheres, contribuindo para a maior compreensão das relações.

Infidelity brings about strong emotions and reactions among partners who experience it, feelings like surprise,... more Infidelity brings about strong emotions and reactions among partners who experience it, feelings like surprise, disappointment, low self-esteem, depression, anguish, guilt, anger, suicide and passionate crimes. The present study tries to understand infidelity’s meanings for women who have been unfaithful in conjugal relationships. This study utilized a qualitative research
method and the data collection instrument was a semi-structured interview. Five women with ages ranging from 30 to 38 participated in this study. Data analysis provided six categories: 1) frustration and dissatisfaction in relationship; 2) emotional involvement as justification for betrayal; 3) Double sexual moral; 4) Guilt and repentance for betrayal; 5) Pleasure in extra conjugal
relationship; 6) Betrayal leading to separation. The results have shown that dissatisfaction with the current relationship and finding in other men attributes not found in partners led these women to a new emotional involvement. Guilt feeling related to discrimination and society’s judgment was also related by the participants. The knowledge about the meanings of infidelity pointed in this study can be useful to Psychology in order to help in these women experiences, as well as contribute to a greater understanding of conjugal relationships nowadays.

The Art of Citizenship: Suffrage Literature as Social Pedagogy

by Maggie Rehm

This study examines the largely forgotten literary tradition that emerged as part of the women’s suffrage movement in... more This study examines the largely forgotten literary tradition that emerged as part of the women’s suffrage movement in the United States, exploring through these texts and their history the relationship between literature, pedagogy, and social change. It argues that suffrage literature and its performances constituted what I have labeled “social pedagogy,” or pedagogy as social action, a project that included both intentional and unintentional educational aspects. The study focuses on the genres of suffrage literature that could be performed at suffrage meetings and elsewhere (the plays, pageants, poems, and songs) because the claiming of public spaces that occurs in such performances reinforces the lessons about women’s rights and roles to be found in the texts themselves, thus adding another dimension to their pedagogy. It also considers the larger rhetorical context within which this literature existed, examining the forms of criticism suffragists faced and the ways suffrage writers engaged with this criticism. In part, the study is an archival project, a continuation and extension of earlier feminist recovery work that reclaims women’s literary texts and women’s history. It significantly expands the currently known body of suffrage literature, much of which was written and performed by women, by examining many texts that have not at this time been reprinted or collected in anthologies. The study is also an exploration of the ways suffragists understood and theorized gender, performance, and pedagogy, often anticipating the ideas and theories of second and third wave feminists and proponents of critical pedagogy. It argues that in their efforts to gain enfranchisement for women, suffrage writers and their writing played a pedagogical as well as an aesthetic role, offering images of female enfranchisement as logical and natural, challenging notions of separate spheres, and generally inviting discourse about women’s rights and roles. In doing so, they negotiated normative gender patterns in order to ensure that their words could find an audience, yet also invited American men and women to consider alternative possibilities for gender identity and expression.