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Mary Wollstonecraft was a writter and a passionate advocate of educational and social equality.She was born in London in 1759, she became a school teacher and a govermess and che wrote her experiences in her book "Thought on the education of doughter". Her most important work on women's place in society is "A vendication of the Right". At the age of 40 she went to Paris to observe the French Revolution and she lived here whit an American man than will give her a daughter. When she broke up whit her man she attemped suicide.

Mary

Wollstonecraft

She returned to London and became a member of an influential radical group which included a lot of famous philosopher. In the 1796 she starts a relationschip with Godwin when she begain pregnant and married. After her marriage she was happy but she ended up dying after giving birth to her daughter Mary Shelley who became a famous writer in Oslo.

"A VINDICATION OF THE RIGHTS OF WOMAN"

This is one of the first and most impartant works of feminism. Wollstonecraft's work attacked the educational system of the period.She argued that an educational system which offered girls the same advantages as boys would result in women who would be not only exceptional wives and mothers but also capable workers in many professions. She did not wish, as she said, for women to have power over men, but that women should have power over themselves. Wollstonecraft's work was unique at the time. Wollstonecraft's Vindication caused considerable controversy and she was violently attacked by politicians and writers of her time. Mary Wollstonecraft's book failed and she was practically forgotten for almost a century. In the late 19th and early-20th century, however, the writer and her work were rediscovered and re-evaluated, notably by Virginia Woolf in A Room of One's Own.

Emmeline Goulden was born on 14 July 1858 in Manchester. In 1879, she married Richard Pankhurst, a lawyer and supporter of the women's suffrage movement. In 1889, Emmeline founded the "Women's Franchise League", which tried to win the right for married women to vote in local elections. In October 1903, she helped found the more militant Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), whose members became known as 'suffragettes'. The suffragettes shocked public opinion with their demonstrations, window smashing, arson and hunger strikes: in 1913 the suffragette Emily Davison was killed when she threw herself under the king's horse at the Derby in protest against the government's refusal to grant women the right to vote.

Emmeline

Pankhurst

Emmeline was arrested on numerous occasions over the next few years and went on hunger strike herself. The militant activity of the suffragettes came to an end when the First World War broke out in 1914, and Emmeline turned her energies to supporting the war effort. After the war, in 1918, the Representation of the People Act gave voting rights to women over 30. Emmeline died on 14 June 1928, shortly after women were granted equal voting rights with men (at 21).

What where the key points of the sufragette movement?

The primary goal of the suffragettes movement in which Emmeline Pankhurst had a great impact was to secure the right to vote for women. They believed that political freedom was crucial for addressing a range of social and political issues affecting women. They fought for several values, they believed that women deserved Equal Legal Rights, such as Marriage, Divorce and Property, aiming against all laws that were discrimatory.

Suffragettes also challenged traditional gender spheres and roles and stereotypes that limited women opportunities in various spheres of their life.

They asked for women's access to education and equal opportunities in the workforce, believing that educational and economic empowerment were crucial for achieving overall gender equality.

How did Sufragettes act?

The suffragette movement was characterized by a range of activities, from peaceful marches and petitions to more militant tactics, including hunger strikes and acts of civil disobedience. Over time, the efforts of suffragettes and other activists contributed to significant legal changes, with women gaining the right to vote in many countries around the world.

Men make the moral code and they expect women to accept it. They have decided that it is entirely right and proper for men to fight for their liberties and their rights, but that it is not right and proper for women to fight for theirs.

Women had always fought for men, and for their children. Now they were ready to fight for their own human rights.

We have to free half of the human race, the women, so that they can help to free the other half.

I would rather be a rebel than a slave

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