For years, the MRM has been told women live under an oppressive patriarchy that denies them any power or influence. What did anti-suffragettes have to say about that? We’ll continue to investigate by reading through and responding to Joe C. Miller’s report “Never a fight of women against man: What the textbooks don’t say about women’s suffrage.”…
Recently on HBR Talk, we’ve been learning about the dastardly patriarchal sons of bi… oh, uh, daughters. Yep, the information war over suffrage and who wanted it, or didn’t want it was women vs women. Last week, another important discussion took precedent, and one might crop up this week as well.…
Over the last 2 weeks, as part of the context related to the development of suffrage in nations influenced by the English parliamentary system, we delved into the related history of gynocentrism, by discussing the difference between gynocentrism, and gynocentric culture, reading an article on the subject from Peter Wright’s reference site, gynocentrism.com.…
Last week, we learned quite a bit about how voting rights came to exist under English common law, and how that history intrinsically connects them with civic duty and military obligation, but that only brings us to the point where 1%-3% of the population even had voting rights.…
It is no secret that we are often saddled even now with the issue and question of suffrage, also known as the Right to Vote in the United States. For the longest time, as seen in historically researched texts, this was more linked to the ownership of property as opposed to the common misconception that gender and race were determining factors.…
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