HIST 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: The Derby Day, Emily Davison, Christabel Pankhurst
27 Mar 2017
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Democratic politics, women, and the vote people used to view democracy with suspicion and fear, mistrust. Federalist papers- john j. james madison, someone else were in support of the constitution. Democracy was associated with atheism and attacks on religion. Democratization in the 1870"s you were extending the vote to more and more males across the worldgradually over time. Women were still excluded from separate spheres ideology: a set of ideas that each gender belonged in their own different sphere men: the public world of politics/work women: private world of family/home. Most 19th century families, mother would have to do some type of work the reality was that she could not just homemake women that tried to come to any democratic meeting for men, they were made fun of. Seneca falls, new york , 1848 around 300 men and women . Frederick douglas spoke in favor of women voting. Lucretia mott- quaker, active in peace movement, labor rights, abolition.
