Not everyone won the vote in 1918, and not everyone is living their best life now.
Articles on Women's suffrage
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Saudi Arabia is the most recent country to grant women the vote. Pakistan has some serious work to do. And Vatican City really needs to get with the programme.
The women’s suffrage campaign shows the advantages of petitioning, even when demands are rejected.
Sylvia Pankhurst’s book is the dominant narrative of the time, but was she unfair to her sister Christabel?
Today’s women’s movement can succeed if organizers learn from the past.
Historically, Australians have been leaders rather than followers on progressing social issues. But more recently, our leaders have trailed behind public opinion.
The suffragists who gained women the right to vote offer a model of Australia’s role in the world that remains as important as ever.
From witch-hunts to the suffragettes, belief in womanly werewolfs has flourished at times when the female gender was under threat. But in contemporary fiction, film and art, werewolf lore is evolving in surprising ways.
Americans enjoy a right to free speech, and some public figures really exercise that right. The Constitution might not protect them the way they think it does, though.
Irish immigrants and their descendants played a leading part in the Easter Rising of 1916 and Ireland’s subsequent rebellion. But the inspiration worked in the other direction as well.
The announcement that Harriet Tubman will be the first woman on U.S. currency in more than a century recalls the history of female – and African-American – portrayals on money.
About 250 women appear to have taken part in 1916’s Easter Rising.
Australia’s inimitability with regard to women’s political equality has barely entered conventional studies of political history.
The movie Suffragettes shows the occasionally violent and sensational tactics used by militant suffragettes. Were these justified?
Alice Duer Miller’s analysis of contemporary politics not only made anti-suffragist politicians look stupid. It also made her (and women like her) look completely capable of participating in the political sphere.
Why it’s an exciting time to be a feminist.
Suffragette tells a story that is both of its time, and timeless - an historical struggle whose lessons, sadly, still need to be learned.
Suffragettes were not merely nice (if slightly bonkers) posh ladies in impressive hats.
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Professor of History, University of Canterbury
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Professor of History and Professor of Public Engagement, La Trobe University
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Senior Lecturer in Modern Irish History, Queen's University Belfast
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Research Associate, King's College London
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Lecturer in Fine Art, Printmaking, RMIT University
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Associate Dean For Global One Health, College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences; and Director, Pandemic and Biosecurity Policy Program, Scowcroft Institute for International Affairs, Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University
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Professor of English and former Academic Director of the Public Humanities Hub, University of British Columbia
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PhD candidate, Durham University
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Senior Research Fellow, Leverhulme Trust Rethinking Petitions project, Durham University
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Director, Vice-Chancellor's Centre of Public Ideas (CoPI) and Donald Horne Professor of History and Public Ideas, University of Canberra
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Professor of Film and Media Arts, Principal Lecturer in Film and Media Production, Sheffield Hallam University
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Barrister and Human Rights Lecturer, Sheffield Hallam University
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Research Fellow, American University School of Public Affairs
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Professor of Politics and Director of the Gender Research Centre, University of Bristol, University of Bristol
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Professor of Social Justice, University of Liverpool