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Lifting As We Climb: the Women’s Club Movement

February 1st, 2010 | No Comments

In the late nineteenth century, feminism, suffrage, political action, self-culture and self-help devolved in the women’s club movement, which enjoyed a heyday from the 1890s through the 1920s. Though this movement transformed the lives of upper- and middle-class women of all ethnicities, it made a particular impact on African-American women.
The club movement grew out of [...]

Ladies’ Gallery at the Commons

September 30th, 2007 | No Comments

“Situated in the House of Commons, the ladies gallery was a discreet and elite place for ladies–the wives, mothers, sisters and any other privileged female relation or acquaintance–to sit and watch the proceedings in Parliament. A highly coveted spot, it was nonetheless raided by Suffragettes in the late Edwardian era.
“Whilst the WSPU had been thus [...]

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