Abortions happened in Arizona, despite a near-complete abortion ban enacted in 1864. But people also faced penalties for them, including a female doctor who went to prison.
Helena Bonham Carter in the film Suffragette.
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A novel about first-wave feminists cleverly critiques the movement’s privilege. The first fiction from Nakkiah Lui’s imprint highlights uncomfortable truths. And a debut about teen girls is ‘too naive’.
Edgar Degas, Interior, 1868 or 1869.
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We’re used to describing feminism in ‘waves’, from the first in 1848, campaigning for women to vote, to the current fourth wave, in the age of #metoo. But do waves still work to describe feminism?
For decades, women from Munich to Melbourne, from Westminster to Washington, had been campaigning for a voice.
Members of the National American Woman Suffrage Association participate in a 1910 parade in Washington, D.C.
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As Americans celebrate the legacy of the 19th Amendment, which granted women the right to vote, it is also a moment to acknowledge how suffragists first used hunger strike as a form of protest.
Gleichen sacrificed her own well-being to help save the lives of injured soldiers on the Italian Front.
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The landscape artist bravely left her aristocratic life behind to help save lives on the Italian front.
Whitlanders in the 1940s. Established in 1941 near the base of Victoria’s Mount Buffalo, this Catholic community celebrated the ‘dignity of manual labour’ and was led by a charismatic athlete and former judge’s associate, Ray Triado.
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Long before 70s hippies and hipster artisans, Australians were seeking solace by going back to the land. They ranged from anarchists to suffragists to Catholic agrarians.