A biography about suffragist Vida Goldstein seeks to reveal her strength and endurance. Sadly, it also reveals how little progress women who seek political power on their terms have made.
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From hunger strike medals to brooches shaped like serpents and spiders, women's jewellery can speak volumes.
Disney's 1964 classic film had a suffragette theme, but it remains to be seen if the new version will celebrate votes for women.
What 69-year-old philosopher Hugh MacLachlan made of Russia's premier protest group.
Real life attackers won't follow a carefully choreographed fight sequence – that's why training is essential.
Canada is strangely muted in celebrating women's suffrage. That's because the politics of remembrance has become a contemporary minefield.
Justified or not, some of the suffragettes' actions were still criminal. And many would consider a conviction a badge of honour.
It's been 100 years since women over 30 won the right to vote in Britain. But that didn't solve gender injustice – and young people today need feminism more than ever.
Not everyone won the vote in 1918, and not everyone is living their best life now.
Sylvia Pankhurst's book is the dominant narrative of the time, but was she unfair to her sister Christabel?
From witch-hunts to the suffragettes, belief in womanly werewolfs has flourished at times when the female gender was under threat. But in contemporary fiction, film and art, werewolf lore is evolving in surprising ways.
Jerusalem has been mooted as England's new national anthem – best swot up on its history.
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Professorial Fellow in History, The University of Melbourne
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Professor Emeritus of Applied Philosophy, Glasgow Caledonian University
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Emeritus Professor of Women's and Gender History, University of Portsmouth
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Research Associate, International Studies Group, University of the Free State
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Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Trust, Peace & Social Relations, Coventry University
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Professor of Musicology, Durham University
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Senior Lecturer in Sport Sociology, Cardiff Metropolitan University
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Lecturer in Fine Art, Printmaking, RMIT University
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Professor of Politics and Director of the Gender Research Centre, University of Bristol, University of Bristol
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Senior Lecturer in Criminal Law and Justice, University of Manchester
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Professor Emerita, University of British Columbia
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Reader in the Sociology of Sport and Physical Culture, Cardiff Metropolitan University
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Program Leader Fine Art, Head of Jewellery and Small Objects, Griffith University
