Royal Holloway University of London - Beyond the Ballot: Women's Rights and Suffrage from 1866 to Today
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Beyond the Ballot: Women's Rights and Suffrage from 1866 to Today at FutureLearn Overview
Duration | 4 weeks |
Total fee | ₹2,205 |
Mode of learning | Online |
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Beyond the Ballot: Women's Rights and Suffrage from 1866 to Today at FutureLearn Highlights
- Duration 4 weeks
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Beyond the Ballot: Women's Rights and Suffrage from 1866 to Today at FutureLearn Course details
- 6th February 2018 marked the centenary of the Representation of the People Act, the piece of legislation which extended the vote to (some) women for the first time. 14th December 2018 marked the centenary of the first election in which women could then exercise their vote.
- Discover how the vote was won, the nineteenth century background to the campaign and what happened next with Dr Claire Kennan from Royal Holloway and experts from the UK Parliament, The National Archives and the Women's Library at the LSE.
Beyond the Ballot: Women's Rights and Suffrage from 1866 to Today at FutureLearn Curriculum
Women in the Nineteenth Century: Myth, Reality and Pioneers
Introduction
Women in Literature
Women in Art
Women and Work
Women and the Law
Pioneers: Women's Education and the Campaign to Abolish the Slave Trade
Pioneers: The Contagious Diseases Act and Factory Reform
Week 1 Conclusion
The Women's Suffrage Campaign
Introduction
The Campaign Begins
The Suffragists
The Suffragettes
Assessing Suffragette Militancy, Then and Now
Forgotten Organisations and Supporters
Week 2 Conclusion
Responses to the Women's Suffrage Campaign
Introduction
The Political Response to the Women's Suffrage Campaign
The State Responds
Popular Reactions to the Women's Suffrage Campaign
Impact of the First World War
The Representation of the People Act
Conclusion
Beyond the Ballot
Introduction
The Impact of Women Voters
Women in Westminster
New and Equality Feminism
Second Wave Feminism
Women and Parliament Today
Week 4 and Course Conclusion
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