POLS 280 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Wartime Elections Act, Nineteenth Amendment To The United States Constitution, Bsc Young Boys

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Political Studies
• Course: POLS 280
• Professor: Elizabeth Goodyear- Grant

Document Summary

Women"s suffrage = right of women to vote in elections. Suffrage not universal for men at the time. Suffragette movement include protests that include violence, rioting, hunger strikes, arrests and some death. 1918 right given to women over the age of 30 who were householders to vote (only 6 million women) Only in 1928 women can vote at 21. 19th amendment in us 1920 gave women same voting rights as men. Much more tame than us & uk. Women groups evolved out of pre-existing networks and organizations for social reform. Wctu blamed alcohol for the root of all social evils. Maternal feminism as a dominant ideology: acceptance of traditional gender roles and the public/private dichotomy. Women saw having a vote as having a platform. Voting rights for property owning women in many cities since early 1800s. Grounded in principles of no taxation without representation . 1940 quebec (catholic church had large control over quebec society)