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3 days ago · From the founding of the United States, women were almost universally excluded from voting and their voices largely suppressed from the political sphere. Beginning in the early 19th century, as women chafed at these restrictions, the movement for woman suffrage began and was tied in large part to agitation against slavery .
2 days ago · The 19th century witnessed a revival of this political action, with over six million people participating in the activity in 1842. Here, Richardson contends that as ‘parliamentary politics grew more exclusive and formalised women looked to an older form of interaction with the state’ (p. 126).
2 days ago · They formed the basis for the women's rights movement in the 19th century and the feminist movements during the 20th and 21st centuries. In some countries, these rights are institutionalized or supported by law, local custom, and behavior, whereas in others, they are ignored and suppressed.
5 days ago · History of Woman Suffrage. The six volumes published from 1881-1922 are a major source of primary documentation about the women's suffrage movement. This link takes you to the digitized volumes in the Gerritsen Collection. The volumes can also be found in the online resource Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000.
- Jennifer Dorner
- 2014
5 days ago · Collection of 550 published and unpublished works by and about women in the Western U.S. during the 18th and 19th centuries. Items in the collection include diaries, autobiographies, biographies, personal histories, and transcriptions of oral interviews. British And Irish Women's Letters And Diaries.
- Sue Collins
- 2013
3 days ago · She argues that religion in the 19th century was 'sexually capacious' (p. 179) and that women's writings on sex were part of 'broader political and theological agendas' (p. 160) that contributed to modern sexual ideas.
1 day ago · Women's suffrage is the right of women to vote in elections. At the beginning of the 18th century, some people sought to change voting laws to allow women to vote. Liberal political parties would go on to grant women the right to vote, increasing the number of those parties' potential constituencies.
