Women and the Vote

A World History

Jad Adams

• The global history of women and the vote - from the earliest times to the present day
• From Europe and North America, to Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Muslim world
• A story of individuals as well as wider movements - from the Pankhursts and Susan B. Anthony to lesser-known activists across the globe
• The first post-feminist history of women's struggle for the vote - with some controversial conclusions

Women and the Vote

A World History

Jad Adams

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Women and the Vote

A World History

Jad Adams

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A World History

Jad Adams

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A World History

Jad Adams

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A World History

Jad Adams

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How women really got the vote

The most important date is 1949, when the populous nations of China, India and Indonesia enfranchised women; that was 40 per cent of the world's female population. What was driving these enfranchisements? The great movements of women's suffrage, where tens of nations enfranchised in a few years, are associated with national solidarity and re-organisation.

Posted on January 5, 2019

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Why didn't more women vote for Hillary Clinton?

Hillary Clinton was confidently predicted to 'crack the country's highest glass ceiling once and for all.' In Rochester, New York women queued up to put tokens on the grave of Susan B Anthony the nineteenth century suffragist and architect of the 19th amendment to the US constitution which gave federal voting rights to woman in 1920 (they had been voting in territories and states since 1869).

Posted on November 11, 2016

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Book of the century: The Subjection of Women

In a dynamic demonstration of the motivating power of the written word, a ladies' literary discussion group read The Subjection of Women in 1883. As soon as they had closed the book, they set up the Finnish Women's Association to campaign for women in public life. It is not coincidental that in 1906 Finland became the first European country where women had the vote. J.S.Mill's book is, with Marx's Capital, one of the two most important political books written in Britain in the nineteenth century.

Posted on May 1, 2016

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