FSN 199 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Alice Paul
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Suffragettes was a derogative term meaning unimportant/futile used for women. Purple white and green; colour scheme to be used for the womens rights movement. 1897 when the movement for women"s right to vote came into play. Women"s political union found in 1956; pankhurst family. Uniforms worn by women were long skirts (green/purple) with a white top with a sash over their right shoulder; sometimes they wore all white along with the sash. Received with honour through medals and certificates after they came out of prison. Women had no rights; passed from father to husband (1900) Produced children toys and cookery books; games like pank-a-squith. Women would wear pieces of jewellery in front of their husbands or other men in public that looked like nice pieces but actually was to support the movement. Lady duff gordon (lucile) wore an evening dress in the three colours and called a.