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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...

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...

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 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...

Voting Age ... The vast majority of countries in the world have established a voting age. Most governments consider that those of any age lower than the chosen threshold lack the necessary capacity to independently decide how to cast a vote...

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...

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 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...

Women's Suffrage In The United States ... Gender roles According to Sandra Bem, androgynous men and women are more flexible and more mentally healthy than either masculine or feminine individuals; undifferentiated individuals are less competent...

Women's Suffrage In Kuwait ... Although married to Hephaestus she had many lovers, most notably Ares. She was depicted as a beautiful woman...

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

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...

History Of Voting In New Zealand ... Initially, the system set standards for suffrage relatively high. To vote, one needed to fall into all of the following categories: males British subjects aged at least 21 years old owners of land worth at least £50, or payers of a certain amount in yearly rental (£10 for farmland or a city house, or £5 for a rural house) not serving a criminal sentence for treason, for a felony, or for another serious offence In theory, this would have allowed Māori men to vote, but electoral regulations excluded communally-held land from counting towards the property-qualification (quite a common restriction in electoral systems of the time)...

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...

LGBT Symbols ... Transsexual men and women (referred to as a trans man or trans woman respectively) desire to establish a permanent gender role as a member of the gender with which they identify, often pursuing medical interventions as part of the process...

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...

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

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 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...

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...

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...

Women's Suffrage In Switzerland ... Feminist activists campaign for women's rights – such as in contract law, property, and voting – while also promoting bodily integrity, autonomy and reproductive rights for women... Feminist campaigns have changed societies, particularly in the West, by achieving women's suffrage, gender neutrality in English, equal pay for women, reproductive rights for women (including access to contraceptives and abortion), and the right to enter into contracts and own property... Feminists have worked to protect women and girls from domestic violence, sexual harassment, and sexual assault...

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...