Peace with the Earth by Åsa Sonjasdotter

“…This contribution comprises Documentation of the launch of Peace with the Earth, an English translation of the 1940 pamphlet Fred med jorden by the Swedish suffragettes and peace activists Elisabeth Tamm and Elin Wägner, at the 2021 PARSE conference on Violence. …”
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Genres et manifestes artistiques by Anne Tomiche

“…And finally how can one explain and understand the relations and the proximity that can be traced between these largely masculinist literary manifestoes and the suffragettes’ manifestoes?…”
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Britomart Quest Anew, Victorians Revive the Elizabethan Faerie Queene as Campaigns for Women’s Suffrage Intensify by Susan Clayton

“…We shall address the questions of links between gender and power, and consider how the past is used to consolidate the present.Our analysis starts by contextualising Victorian revivals of Britomart’ story, paying special attention to a prose adaptation by Mary MacLeod, then assessing these revivals in relation to women’s demands for change, bearing in mind that British suffragettes also looked across the Channel to another female knight-at-arms, Joan of Arc, for a model for their campaigns. …”
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In Front of the Distorting Mirror of the Vortex: the Reception of Vorticism in the British Political Press (1913-1916) by Oriane MARRE

“…The Vorticist movement appeared in 1914, after a fight between the English avant-garde and Italian Futurism, just as England entered World War One, and when the country was facing an uneasy transition from an old and stable order to a new era of trouble reinforced by different strikes conducted by suffragettes, Unionists and workers. The arrival of Marinetti in London in November 1913 had already triggered some interest among political journalists who questioned the consequences of that “Italian invasion”, and the Vorticist movement, born on June 11th 1914, increased their worries by its alleged violence. …”
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InternatIonalIzatIon or natIonalIzatIon by CommunICatIon? the InternatIonal CommunICatIon relatIons of the German suffraGe movement by Tarik Sabry

“…The latter will be discussed via the examination of the controversial debate on the British suffragettes and their tactics within the publications of the German suffrage movement and the German general public, and it will be shown how national patterns of selection and interpretation became the central point of reference within the German suffrage movement.…”
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« Professions for Women » de Virginia Woolf : Féminisme et Expérience littéraire by Justine Rabat

“…Ce texte révèle l’engagement de Woolf qui fait écho aux mouvements féministes du début du XXe siècle (dont celui des suffragettes). À partir de l’analyse de « Profession for women », nous identifierons les différentes étapes de la formation d’une pensée féministe à situer dans un contexte historico-politique. …”
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La question intersectionnelle à travers trois exemples du cinéma anglophone contemporain. Entre invisibilisation, revendication et discours contradictoires by Héloïse Van Appelghem

“…In a second step, beyond intersectionality as an analytical tool, the concept can be solicited on the side of the production or on the side of the audience in the reception, operating different discourses on a film: Antebellum bases its script and promotion on an intersectional discourse, striving to examine the intersection of different discriminations through the lens of the Black Horror genre, while Suffragettes makes the choice to invisibilize the parameter of race oppression in favor of class. …”
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Discourses of transnational feminism in Marie du Toit’s Vrou en feminist (1921) by Malgorzata Drwal

“…I argue that the book was an unsuccessful attempt at inviting the Afrikaans reader into a transnational imagined community of suffragettes because of prejudice against the English language and culture. …”
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Sisters and sisterhood: the Kenney sisters, suffrage and social reform c.1890-1970 by Jenkins, L

“…It is a history of education, literacy, religion, migration and social mobility as well as suffrage, and of teachers, theosophists, political activists, social reformers, friends and sisters as well as suffragettes.</p>…”

An Anglocentric History of Anaesthetics and Analgesics in the Refinement of Animal Experiments by R. Eddie Clutton

“…In 1902, the mismanaged anaesthetic of a dog in the Department of Physiology, University College London resulted in numerous events of public disorder initiated by medical students against the police and a political coalition of anti-vivisectionists, trade unionists, socialists, Marxists, liberals and suffragettes. The importance of anaesthesia in animal experiments was sustained over the following 150 years as small mammalian species gradually replaced dogs and cats as the principle subjects for vivisection. …”
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