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Feminist Education: Emmeline Pankhurst
Emmeline Pankhurst, her daughters Christabel, Sylvia and Adela Pankhurst, and a small group of women based in Manchester founded the Women’s Social and Political (1928), when British women obtained full equality in the voting franchise.
...Prior to this, Pankhurst founded the Women’s Franchise League (1894), which secured the right for married women to vote in elections to local offices (not the House of Commons).
From 1906 Emmeline Pankhurst directed WSPU activities from London. Regarding the Liberal government as the main obstacle to woman suffrage. She campaigned against the party’s candidates at elections, and her followers interrupted meetings of cabinet ministers. In 1908–09 Pankhurst was jailed three times, once for issuing a leaflet calling on the people to “rush the House of Commons.” A truce that she declared in 1910 was broken when the government blocked a “conciliation” bill on woman suffrage. From July 1912 the WSPU turned to extreme militancy, mainly in the form of arson directed by Emmeline’s daughter Christabel from Paris.
With the outbreak of World War I in 1914, she and Christabel called off the suffrage campaign, and the government released all suffragist prisoners. In 1926, upon returning to England from America, Pankhurst was chosen Conservative candidate for an east London constituency, but her health failed before she could be elected. The Representation of the People Act of 1928, establishing voting equality for men and women, was passed a few weeks after her death.
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Feminist Education: Vivienne Westwood
“I think it’s great that people stand up for women’s rights but the problem with feminists is that they somehow consider women to be superior beings. And in the end, they just want to be men anyway.”
Labelled herself as anti-feminist ...in a new wave of feminism. Her punk movement and not conforming to societal standards or norms was her ‘fuck you’ to the patriarchy and all conformists. Westwood was not going to be made to be a man’s housewife or a good girl, and showed this in her designs. Westwood champions female empowerment rather than masculine imitation and during her life, strived for equality and breaking down societal expectations.
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Feminist Education: Simone de Beauvoir
“One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.” To destroy the essentialism which claims that women are born “feminine” but are rather constructed to be such through social indoctrination.
Simone de Beauvoir was a feminist writer and ...philosopher, working predominantly in France. She is primarily known for her book ‘The Second Sex’ (Le Deuxiéme Sexe 2 Vol.) which has been described as a scholarly and passionate plea for the abolition of what she called the myth of the “eternal feminine.” In 2009 a new English-language translation of ‘The Second Sex’ was published, making the entire original text available to English-speaking readers for the first time; the earlier translation (1953) had been severely edited. Part of Beauvoir’s philosophical work looked at how the basic options of an individual must be made on the premises of an equal vocation for man and woman founded on a common structure of their being, independent of their sexuality. She also looked at the issues surrounding ageing and a reflection on societies indifference to the elderly. Beauvoir was also a novelist whose narratives included elements of the philosophical and female struggle.
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