International Encyclopedia of Women's Suffrage

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Bloomsbury Academic, Dec 15, 2000 - History - 380 pages

This first of its kind, award winning reference book chronicles important leaders and events in women's struggle to obtain the vote worldwide.

International Encyclopedia of Women's Suffrage examines women's suffrage movements internationally, incorporating entries on countries from all five continents. Entries include biographies of suffrage activists, important terms (such as militancy and antisuffrage movements), national and international suffrage organizations (such as the Women's Social and Political Union), major events (such as the Russian all-woman congress of 1908), and key texts (such as the Declaration of Sentiments and Its Resolutions).

The encyclopedia includes an introduction, chronology, bibliography, index, and illustrations.

Contents

Actresses Franchise League
1
AllAsian Womens Conference 1931
10
Antisuffrage Movements
16
Auclert Hubertine
22
Austria
28
BillingtonGreig Teresa
34
Finland
99
French Revolution
105
Newspapers and Journals
210
Nineteenth Amendment
216
PanAmerican Womens Conference
222
Paul Alice
228
PethickLawrence Frederick
235
Propaganda
241
Race and Ethnicity
249
The Revolution
255

Galindo Hermila
111
Gripenberg Alexandra
117
Hunger Strikes
124
Ichikawa Fusae 127
193
Samoa formerly Western Samoa
261
Shafiq Durriyah Shafik Doria
269
World War I
330
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