Gender and Suffrage Politics: New Approaches to the History of Women's Political Emancipation

Bader−Zaar, Birgitta

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“…With few exceptions, the spectres of the British and American suffrage campaigns still overshadow the experiences of internationally minded suffragists elsewhere in the world (Edwards & Roces, ; Evans, ; Mukherjee, ; Sulkunen, ). Notwithstanding decades of reminders that more might be done to expand its remit, and however “diverse” the conversations started by Anglo‐American activists at the fin‐de‐siècle may have been, suffrage scholarship has yet to fully enact its transnational ideals (Bader‐Zaar, ; Daley & Nolan, ; Hannam, ).…”

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Piecing together suffrage internationalism: Place, space, and connected histories of Australasian women's activism

Keating

2018

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Over the past 20 years, suffrage historians have sought to reimagine their field—traditionally tethered to the nation—as an international one. The Australasian suffragists, who strove to overcome their perceived isolation by exchanging print, personnel, and ideas across borders, seem perfect candidates for such revisionist treatment. However, despite the invigorating push to destabilise the nation, which has rewired much of Australian and New Zealand historiography, the suffragists remain ensconced in national frames. Revisiting the rich Australasian scholarship on women, mobility, and cross‐border organisation, this article discusses the political and intellectual barriers that have impeded attempts to reconstruct suffrage internationalism. Yet documenting the suffragists' cross‐border interactions requires more than replacing monolithic national histories with revised internationalist versions. Instead, responding to debates about the digitally driven rise of connected histories, this article argues that historians should piece together suffrage internationalism as it existed in specific places—recovering often messy assemblages of transnational individuals, groups, and organisations. Such an approach will both illuminate colonial women's place in the networks that bound the fin‐de‐siècle world and provide a fresh perspective on the international women's movement.

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Piecing together suffrage internationalism: Place, space, and connected histories of Australasian women's activism

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“A Splendid Object Lesson”: A Transnational Perspective on the Birth of the Australian Nation

Wright¹

2014

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In June 1902 the passage of the Commonwealth Franchise Act through the Commonwealth Parliament meant that Australia’s white women became the first in the world to win both the right to vote and to sit in parliament. Drawing on original empirical research, this article demonstrates that at the turn of the twentieth century, Australia was internationally recognized as a world leader in democratic practice. This little known claim to geo-political fame holds significance for both transnational histories of women’s suffrage and for Australian narratives of nationhood, neither of which tend to identify Australian women as critical to the history of modern democracy. Further, re-investigating the origins of women’s suffrage helps recall the potency of radical idealism in an era that now privileges militarism—in Australia, embodied most clearly in the ANZAC legend—over maternalism as the primary source of nation building.

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The Role of Petitions in the Mobilization of Women for the Right to Vote: The Case of Queensland, Australia, 1894, 1897

Jordan¹

2017

Journal of Women's History

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Gender and Suffrage Politics: New Approaches to the History of Women's Political Emancipation

Cited by 4 publications

References 17 publications

Piecing together suffrage internationalism: Place, space, and connected histories of Australasian women's activism

Piecing together suffrage internationalism: Place, space, and connected histories of Australasian women's activism

“A Splendid Object Lesson”: A Transnational Perspective on the Birth of the Australian Nation

The Role of Petitions in the Mobilization of Women for the Right to Vote: The Case of Queensland, Australia, 1894, 1897

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