All The Presidents Women

Feminism ... The outbreak of the First World War led to a halting of much of the campaigning, with lobbying taking place discreetly, and in 1918 the Representation of the People Act 1918 was passed, enfranchising women over the age of 30 who met minimum property qualifications... The Representation of the People Act 1928 extended the voting franchise to all women over the age of 21... Women had the franchise in local government, school boards (see London School Board), and health authorities from the late nineteenth century...

Women's Suffrage In The United Kingdom ... The main Soviet censorship body, Glavlit, employed 70,000 full-time staff not only to eliminate any undesirable printed materials, but also "to ensure that the correct ideological spin was put on every published item". Telling anything against the "Party line" was punished by imprisonment or through punitive psychiatry...

Transsexualism ... Lisa Tuttle has defined feminist theory as asking "new questions of old texts." She cites the goals of feminist criticism as: (1) To develop and uncover a female tradition of writing, (2) to interpret symbolism of women's writing so that it will not be lost or ignored by the male point of view, (3) to rediscover old texts, (4) to analyze women writers and their writings from a female perspective, (5) to resist sexism in literature, and (6) to increase awareness of the sexual politics of language and style...

Timeline Of First Women's Suffrage In Majority-Muslim Countries ... 1956 - Comoros, Egypt, Mali, Mauritania, Somalia 1957 - Malaysia 1959 - Tunisia 1960 - Gambia 1961 - Sierra Leone 1962 - Algeria 1963 - Iran, Morocco 1964 - Libya, Sudan 1965 - Afghanistan 1970 - Yemen 1972 - Bangladesh 1974 - Jordan 1978 - Nigeria 1993-1994 - Kazakhstan 1999 - Qatar 2002 - Bahrain 2003 - Oman 2005 - Kuwait 2006 - United Arab Emirates 2011 - Saudi Arabia Brunei has no suffrage for men or women...

American Propaganda During World War II ... On May 3, 2005, MP Waleed Al-Tabtabaie helped create a constitutional roadblock that effectively killed a measure that would have allowed women to participate in city council elections for the first time... The new law which would give Kuwaiti women the right to vote was initially by the National Assembly on April 19, but in accordance with the Kuwaiti constitution it faced a second vote for ratification on May 2... Because the elections were called under the existing law, women were barred from participating in the imminent municipal elections even if the measure ultimately passed...

Transgender ... Transgender is the state of one's "gender identity" (self-identification as woman, man, neither or both) not matching one's "assigned sex" (identification by others as male, female or intersex based on physical/genetic sex). "Transgender" does not imply any specific form of sexual orientation; transgender people may identify as heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, pansexual, polysexual, or asexual; some may consider conventional sexual orientation labels inadequate or inapplicable to them...

Women's Suffrage ... International organizations were formed to coordinate efforts, especially the International Council of Women (1888) and the International Woman Suffrage Alliance (1904)... In 1893, New Zealand became the first nation to extend the right to vote to all adult women, and the women in South Australia achieved the same right in 1895 but became the first to obtain also the right to stand (run) for Parliament...

Women's Suffrage In New Zealand ... The Electoral Bill granting women the franchise was given Royal Assent by Governor Lord Glasgow on 19 September 1893, and women voted for the first time in the election held on 28 November 1893 (elections for the Māori electorates were held on 20 December)... History Women's suffrage was granted after about two decades of campaigning by women such as Kate Sheppard and Mary Ann Müller and organisations such as the New Zealand branch of the Women's Christian Temperance Union led by Anne Ward... Suffrage advocates countered that allowing women to vote would encourage policies which protected and nurtured families...

Women's Suffrage In Australia ... Propertied women in the colony of South Australia were granted the vote in local elections (but not parliamentary elections) in 1861...

Voting Rights In The United States ... When the country was founded, in most states, only white men with property were permitted to vote (freed African Americans could vote in four states). White working men, almost all women, and all other people of color were denied the franchise...

Propaganda In The Soviet Union ... In the United States she places the turning point in the decades before and after women obtained the vote in 1920 (1910–1930)... For women it is not a question of asserting themselves as women, but of becoming full-scale human beings." "One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman", or as Toril Moi puts it "a woman defines herself through the way she lives her embodied situation in the world, or in other words, through the way in which she makes something of what the world makes of her"...

Transfeminism ... However, women were arrested and imprisoned for "antisocial behavior," which included feminism, lesbianism, and prostitution, and was applied to women who did not conform to the ideal Nazi image of a woman: cooking, cleaning, kitchen work, child raising, and passivity... It was unbelievable." The accounts of police brutality include women being thrown to the ground and protesters' teeth being knocked out...

British Propaganda During World War II ... The Ministry both advised the producers on the suitability of subjects which they had suggested, and proposed subjects which we thought would do good overseas. Whenever the Ministry had approved a subject we gave every help to the producer in obtaining facilities to make the film...

Suffrage ... Suffrage is often conceived in terms of elections for representatives; however, suffrage applies equally to initiative and referendum. Suffrage describes not only the legal right to vote, but also the practical question of whether a question will be put to a vote...

Feminist Theory ... The first wave refers to the movement of the 19th through early 20th centuries, which dealt mainly with suffrage, working conditions and educational rights for women and girls... The second wave (1960s-1980s) dealt with the inequality of laws, as well as cultural inequalities and the role of women in society...

Universal Suffrage ... In most countries, full universal suffrage – with the inclusion of women – followed universal male suffrage by about ten to twenty years...

History Of Feminism ... In the 21st century, Krista Scott-Dixon and Julia Serano have contributed work in the field of transgender women...