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Imagine You Were There… Winning the Vote for Women
Read about the fight of women pioneers around the world
Caryn Jenner
(Kingfisher)
£7.99
Imagine You Were There… Winning the Vote for Women is more than a timeline of voting rights around the world. Furthermore, it does not focus exclusively upon the Suffragettes, although their story is explained very well.
Rather, Caryn Jenner takes a global view of women’s voting rights from New Zealand in 1893, to the inclusion of Maori women. We read of the variances of voting rights and the trailblazers who have fought this issue. Alongside the global view, we learn of individual women like Hubertine Auclert. Her refusal to pay taxes and attempt to stand for public office, initiated France’s battle for voting rights. What’s more, we discover the repercussions. Therefore, we learn of the drastic punishment meted out to the Suffragettes, alongside Doria Shafik’s hunger strikes. She ‘led a generation of women’s suffrage campaigners in Egypt’ which ‘helped Egyptian women win the vote in 1956′.
However the writer makes it clear that the struggle for equality continues in voting rights and thereafter in issues such as employment and education. What’s more she considers how gender equality is often considered instead of or alongside women’s rights. Imagine You Were There… Winning the Vote for Women is a thoroughly fascinating, informative and beautifully produced book that Bookwagon recommends for schools and home.
Imagine You Were There… Winning the Vote for Women
Read about the fight of women pioneers around the world
Caryn Jenner
(Kingfisher)
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