POLS 280 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Wartime Elections Act, John Stuart Mill, Force-Feeding

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

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Early struggles for the political representation: the vote. Women(cid:495)s suffrage is the right of women by law to vote in elections, however. Suffrage wasn(cid:495)t universal for men various religious and ethnic groups were women were not allowed to vote until disenfranchised. Supported by prominent intellectuals like john stuart mill, but opposed by queen. This lead parliament to agree with the crown. Both were more radical than movements in other countries. Example: some women activists sent to prison, engaged in hunger strikes and some died as a result of force feeding. British women won the vote in 1918. Restrictions: women had to be 30 years old or older, property owners or the wives of property owners and graduates of british universities. This happened through the passing of the 19th amendment, which prohibits each of the states and the federal government from denying voting rights on the basis of sex.