Western Civilization II / Unit 12 WC2 1119 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Vote: 1867, "Feminist" 1890, Finland and Norway First
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The idea
Britain's National Society for Women's Suffrage formed in eighteen sixty-seven; the word "feminist" dates from eighteen ninety, with Hubertine Auclert refusing taxes without representation. Opposition ran from biologists to Victoria's "mad, wicked folly". Before the war only Finland and Norway had granted the vote.
In practice
Britain: property-owning women over thirty, nineteen eighteen.
Where people slip
France waited until nineteen forty-four, Switzerland until nineteen seventy-one.
Your place on the trail
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