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#anonymouswasawoman: #HERstory: The feminist triumph of Clinton’s run – @voxdotcom
By feimineach / in #anonymouswasawoman, #quickhits / November 13, 2016(I am happy to take the point, even if it does feel like we’re clutching at straws a bit.)•••Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign led to fresh attention to a related landmark moment in US history: ...
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#anonymouswasawoman: #HERstory: When the movie Suffragette came out in October, critics noticed something off
By feimineach / in #anonymouswasawoman, #quickhits / January 8, 2016npr: When the movie Suffragette came out in October, critics noticed something off: The film’s struggling women were all white. In fact, one of the most important women in the suffragette movement wa...
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#picturethis: #anonymouswasawoman: #HERstory: soldiers in petticoats: portraits of the suffragettes
By feimineach / in #feminism, #picturethis, #anonymouswasawoman, #quickhits / June 25, 2015Mounted on horseback, dressed in white robes, marching on the Royal Albert Hall, this was a pivotal time for the suffragette movement, captured by one of the UK’s first press photographers, Christina ...
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#picturethis: Soldiers in petticoats: portraits of the suffragettes
By feimineach / in #feminism, #picturethis, #quickhits / June 19, 2015Soldiers in petticoats: portraits of the suffragettes – in pictures All photographs: Christina Broom/Museum of London (via the guardian). [gallery link="none" size="full" type="slideshow" ids="21325...
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#vivelafeminism: Nine inspiring lessons the suffragettes can teach feminists today
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / May 30, 2013About 10 days behind on blogging. No chance of catching up at this stage. Anyway, this on the guardian: On 4 June 1913, Emily Wilding Davison travelled to Epsom Downs to watch the Derby, carrying two...
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#picturethis: #anonymouswasawoman: #HERstory: 100 Years Ago, The 1913 Women’s Suffrage Parade (Washington DC)
By feimineach / in #feminism, #picturethis, #anonymouswasawoman, #quickhits / March 3, 2013This is an amazing collection of photographs from the Library of Congress. They are from the Women’s Suffrage Parade which took place in Washington DC on the 3rd of March 1913.Captions etc. on the lin...
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