Rise Up Women! The Remarkable Lives of the Suffragettes. By Diane Atkinson. Bloomsbury Publishing; 650 pages; $40 and £30. The Stalled Revolution: Is Equality for Women an Impossible Dream?

In the run-up to World War One, Garrud became a jiu-jitsu instructor to the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), better known as the suffragettes, taking part in an increasingly violent ...

"But when you fight for something, you must be ready to fight, fight, fight." And the Swiss suffragettes really did fight. Universal suffrage may have come late to Switzerland, but the country's ...

In the run-up to World War One, Garrud became a jiu-jitsu instructor to the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), better known as the suffragettes, taking part in an increasingly violent ...

Women had been campaigning to get the vote for decades but it was not until the Suffragettes were formed that they managed to achieve their goal on 6 February 1918. The Daily Mail gave the Women's ...

However, some women believed that only direct action could force change. Derisively labelled ‘suffragettes’ by Daily Mail journalist Charles E Hands, they formed a new militant wing of the ...

Modern day suffragettes, Squid Game-inspired activists and miniature Greta Thunbergs were among those campaigning for climate action during the second day of the COP26 summit in Glasgow.

It’s election time again, and anarchist women are once more being lectured on doing our duty to those who died for our vote. For the record, the suffragettes’ demand was that women should be balloted ...

The 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote was ratified on August 18, 1920. Suffragettes were arrested, imprisoned, and otherwise targeted as they fought for voting rights. Black women and ...

For years now, fashion and protests have gone hand in hand. Getty Images From suffragettes knowingly dressing hyper-feminine to members of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense wearing black ...

High up on the list are the Suffragettes, “Purple, white and green”, the Pankhursts, militancy and the 'Cat and Mouse Act'. 'These words and images have been absorbed into the British psyche ...

Was the militancy of these suffragettes justified? The film portrays the frustration women experienced when their peaceful protests and participation in parliamentary enquiries failed to get the ...