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Gender Role ... It is also true that in times of necessity, such as during a war or other emergency, women are permitted to perform functions which in "normal" times would be considered a male role, or vice versa...

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...

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...

Androgyny ... The pervasive use of propaganda by the Nazis is largely responsible for the word "propaganda" itself acquiring its present negative connotations. Chronology In opposition (1919–33) Nazi leader Adolf Hitler devoted two chapters of his 1925/26 work Mein Kampf, itself a propaganda tool, to the study and practice of propaganda...

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...

Japanese Propaganda During World War II ... During the first world war, the movement came to a halt, as more critical problems came to the forefront. Among others, the women's alliances carried out the collective welfare work during the war, since Switzerland at this time still had no social insurance...

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...

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...

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

Timeline Of Women's Suffrage ... New Zealand in 1893 is often said to be the first "country" in the world to give women the right to vote... A contestant for being the first independent nation to grant women the right to vote would be Sweden, where conditional woman suffrage was granted during the age of liberty between 1718 and 1771, when taxpaying women listed in their guilds as professionals were allowed to vote...

Women's Suffrage In Japan ... Women in Japan were prohibited, by law, from joining political parties, expressing political views and attending political meetings... By 1920, the fight for women’s political inclusion was at the forefront of the Suffrage Movement and in 1921 the Japanese Diet (parliament) over-ruled Article 5 of the Police Security Act by granting women the right to attend political meetings... The ban on women’s involvement in political parties, however, was not altered, as many members of the Diet felt that it was selfish for women to forsake their families for government...

Nazi Propaganda ... They widely believed that any unfavorable opinion of them was owing to superior enemy propaganda; even after the Rape of Nanking, they believed that only superior Chinese propaganda explained why the world turned on them. Media Films The Film Law of 1939 decreed a "healthy development of the industry" which abolished sexually frivolous films and social issues...

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...

Woman ... A very common Indo-European root for woman, *gwen-, is the source of English queen (Old English cwēn primarily meant woman, highborn or not; this is still the case in Danish, with the modern spelling kvinde, as well as in Swedish kvinna), as well as gynaecology (from Greek γυνή gynē), banshee fairy woman (from Irish bean woman, sí fairy) and zenana (from Persian زن zan). The Latin fēmina, whence female, is likely from the root in fellāre (to suck), referring to breastfeeding...

Women Artists ... Beginning in the late 1960s and 1970s, feminist artists and art historians created a Feminist art movement, that overtly addresses the role of women in the art world and explores women in art history... Prehistoric era There are no records of who the artists of the prehistoric eras were, but the studies of many early ethnographers and cultural anthropologists indicate that women often were the principal artisans in the cultures considered as Neolithic, creating their pottery, textiles, baskets, and jewelry... Cave paintings exist that bear the handprints of women and children as well as those with the handprints of men...

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...

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...

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...