Histroy (Suffragettes) Flashcards
(42 cards)
1870 and 1882 allowed?
women to keep property and income after marrige
contagious diseases act?
stop forced medical examinations of women expected to be prostitutes
more working lass girls went to?
elementary school, grammer schools were set up for girls (for skilled carrers rather tha cooking lessons) more went to uni (though most didn’t graduate)
There were 2
million domestic servants, worked mostly in textile factories, increased from 20 in 1881 to 447 in 1911 (skilled professions) like banking, post office
1834- ?
Women ratepayers could join school boards in and elementary schools were established for ?
1902 Education Act-
Had to be 1 female on distress (payout) committee
Woem could be Poor lAw guardians
1870, all boys and girls
at least 1 female on eduation coucils
1905w
Suffragism ws originally not just for femals but for..?
a basic demand of equality and human rights for everyone
Figures like Forence nightingale and elizabeth fry showed that?
women could do tasks/duties originally reseved for men
As women got more human rights the next logical step (gradual process though) was?
the right to vote
Traditional views of women still held though the introduction of?
birth control pills meant more freedom
Most support came from?
Most oppositon came from?
individual liberals- issues with concerns about them voting conservative
Conservatives like Balfour supported it
Conservative peers often opposed it
Oppostion agaisnt women suffrage?
1884-enfraichemsent of most men
(most remaning male non-voters didn’t want women to get the vote)
Poltiical prties- worre about who thy would support -labour’s 1st priroty was to get vote for all men
Trade unions thought of as women as inferior
Some women didn’t want the vote- anti-suffrage league
women amde up .. of the conservative primrose league?
women’s liberation federation was formed in?
49%
1887
NUWSS?
Millicent fawcett
non-political, though many high-profile members were part of WFL (1887)
access to liberals
working (tried to broaden appeal to them)- middle-upper class
1910- membership was 21,500
WSPU?
Emmeline Pankhurst
autocratic-memebrs did’t make decisions
controlled media(difffucult for any oppostion)
criticised for being mainly middle0class (working class tended to join NUWSS)
all bills before 1900-private members-only be considered if currne governemtnbe bothered to waste time on it-always faield
core objective wa to get enough attention to orce them to bring in a suffrage bill
Why did the liberal landslide vicotry in 190 give women hope?
Many sympatheitic liberals like LLoyd George
Millicent fawcett?
- president in 1897
- used constitiutinal non-violent means
- strenthened ties between poltiical parties
Emmeline Pankhurst?
originally in fabien society/ILP
annoed with failure of ILP and NUWSS
formed WSPU in 1903-adopted a militant approach
stopped during war
stood unsucessfully as onservative candidate in 1926 election
Tradtional tactics: meetings/conferences increase funds, raise profile of campaigns
women spoke at conferences about women’s suffrage
WSPU -trafugalr square (spoke to women)
Feb 1907- first women’s parliment across from houses fo Parliment (liberals first sesssion)
generally legal
1905- Christabek PAnkhurst/Annie Kennedy arrested for heckling Churchill
marches/demonstrations- more to get visible attention/unite ralliers
Feb 1907- ‘mud march’ >3000 women marched
Nov 1910- suffragettes stromed house of commons - fight with policty-women physically and sexualyl assaulted’black friday’
continued with hunger strikes in prison to draw attention
1911- 40,000 marchers for new king George v
1912- pilgromage from london-edinborough
1913- death of emily davidosn (threw herself in fron of king’s horse- political demonstration)
Propagandize?
artist’s suffrage league- printed/published posters
wspu- sold badges
Civil disobedience?
‘no taxaton without represntation
refused to pay taxes, complete cnesus forms e.g. women’s freddom league
census taken every 10 years, in 1911- women arranegd to be whre they could not be found
Attacks on property- led by christabel pankurst?
> 1905 pouring acid on gold courses, settign light to pillar boxes
1912, attacks intesified- smashing windown of foreign office/importnat governement buildings
1913- Lloyd george’s home in surray was partially destroyed by arson
what were the main impacts of militancy by the WSPU?
- attract publicity(keep women’s vote in newppaer)
- drove women who hated violence inot the arms of the NUWSS membership grew from 12,000 in 1909 to 50,000 in 1912
- xonvinced those who thought that women were too irrational to vote that they were right
How were the surragettes denied proper forms of democratic protest though?
- banned from liberal meeting
- liberals refused to meet WSPU delegations
- banned from holding meetings in poublic places
- printer who published The Suffragette magazine was prosecuted