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WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT - Coggle Diagram
WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT
WOMEN'S RIGHTS MOVEMENT IN GREAT BRITAIN
Mary Wollstonecraft book, vindication of the rights of woman
Liberal intellectuals John Stuart Mill and his wife Harriet
First woman suffrage formed in Manchester in 1865
PARLIAMENT DENYING RIGHT TO VOTE
The defeat of every major suffrage bill brought before parliament
1897 various suffragist societies united into the "National Union Of Women's Suffrage Societes"
MILITANT REACTION - BIRTH OF THE SUFFRAGETTES
After 1906 the succeeding years saw the defeat of 7 suffrage bills, so many suffragettes became involved in violent actions
Those woman were sent to prison and protests by engaging in hunger strikes
WHERE DID THE SUFFRAGETTES PROTEST?
In their headquarters in London, where the government was located
They targeted major works of art and various landmarks
Richardson slashed the torso of the Venus in a museum
HOW WHERE THE SUFFRAGETTES TREATED BY THE GOVERNMENT?
Many of them received prison sentences. They were sent to Holloway Prison where they protested against the refusal. The government introduced a policy of force-feeding
CAT and MOUSE ACT
The governament began a cruel strategy that consists in letting the suffragettes having an hunger strike, until they were weakened enough. Than they released them to not let them die, just to rearrest them later on.
EMILY WILDING - EPSOM DERBY
June 1913 Emily Davison threw her self under the king's horse at the derby race and was killed