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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Women's suffrage in the United Kingdom as a national movement began in 1872. Women were not formally prohibited from voting in the United Kingdom until the 1832 Reform Act and the 1835 Municipal Corporations Act. Both before and after 1832 establishing women's suffrage on some level was a political topic, although it would not be until 1872 that it would become a national movement with the formation of the National Society for Women's Suffrage and later the more influential National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies. Little victory was achieved in this constitutional campaign in its earlier years up to around 1905. It was at this point that the militant campaign began with the formation of the Women's Social and Political Union. The outbreak of the First World War led to a halting of almost all campaigning, but some argue that it was the competence of women war workers that led to the extension of the franchise to single women over the age of 30 in 1918; providing they were householders, married to a householder or if they held a university degree. Universal suffrage for all adults over 21 years of age was not achieved until 1928. Women had the franchise in local government, school boards (see London School Board), and health authorities from the late nineteenth century. Their successes in these areas contributed to their acquiring parliamentary suffrage. The following quote may serve to vividly portray the environment within which political feminism arose in the United Kingdom. This passage is excerpted from a treatise on international commercial law from a section describing conditions under which a person may be considered unfit to enter into a commercial contract. Following the discussion of individuals unfit due to "want of understand... More: Books Books Feminism-In-The-United-Kingdom~~Books-Llc General Books LLC<

ISBN: 1156889324

Feminism in the United Kingdom Women's Suffrage in the United Kingdom, Women's Social and Political Union, Women in the British House of Commons Author :Books LLC 9781156889329 1156889324

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Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: LIFE JOURNEY, 30 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=2mm, Gew.=59gr, Kartoniert/Broschiert