Full Description
Whilst scholarship on women's suffrage usually focuses on a few emblematic countries, The Struggle for Female Suffrage in Europe casts a comparative look at the articulation of women's suffrage rights in the countries that now make up the political-unity-in-the-making we call the European Union. The book uncovers the dynamics that were at play in the recognition of male and female suffrage rights and in the definition of male and female citizenship in modern Europe. It allows readers to identify differences and commonalities in the histories of women's disenfranchisement and sheds light on the role suffrage has played in the construction of female citizenship in European countries. It provides the background against which a new European paradigm of parity democracy is gradually asserting itself.
Contents
Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Transition to Modernity, the Conquest of Female Suffrage, and Women's Citizenship, Blanca Rodriguez-Ruiz and Ruth Rubio-Marin A Long Tradition of Equality: Women's Suffrage in Finland, Aura Korppi-Tommola Democratisation of Denmark: The Inclusion of Women in Political Citizenship, Christina Fiig and Birte Siim The Development of Women's Rights in Lithuania: Striving for Political Equality, T. Birmontiene and V. Jureniene Winning Women's Vote: Experience from Latvia, Aija Branta Suffrage and the Nation: Women's Vote in Estonia, Helen Biin and Anneli Albi Winning Women's Vote in Germany, Ute Sacksofsky Polish Women's Fight for Suffrage, Malgorzata Fuszara Female Suffrage in Luxembourg, Sonja Kmec The Women's Vote in The Netherlands: From the 'Houseman's Vote' to Full Citizenship, Inge Bleijenbergh and Jet Bussemaker Gaining the Vote in a World in Transition: Female Suffrage in Austria, Birgitta Bader-Zaar Mothers of the Nation: Women's Vote in the Czech Republic, Dana Musilova The Contexts of National and Gender Belonging: The History of Female Suffrage in Slovakia, Lubica Kobova How Women Gained Suffrage in Sweden: A Weave of Alliances, Lena Wangnerud Divisions and Debates: The Irish Suffrage Experience, Myrtle Hill Great Britain, Krista Cowman Constructing Women's Citizenship: The Conquest of Suffrage and Women's Political Rights in Spain, Amparo Rubiales and Ana Aguado The Difficult Struggle for Women's Political Rights in France, Sylvie Chaperon Women's Suffrage in Bulgaria, Krassimira Daskalova Female Suffrage in Slovenia, Irena Selisnik The Achievement of Female Suffrage in Romania, Roxana Cheschebec From the Struggle for Suffrage to the Construction of a Fragile Gender Citizenship: Italy 1861-2009, Susanna Mancini Female Suffrage in Malta, Ruth Farrugia Caught Between Strategic Positions and Principles of Equality: Female Suffrage in Belgium, Petra Meier Development Defined by Paradoxes: Hungarian History and Female Suffrage, Csilla Kollonay-Lehoczky So Difficult to be Considered as Citizens: The History of Women's Suffrage in Greece, 1864-2001, Demetra Samiou Women's Suffrage in Cyprus, Kalliope Agapiou-Josephides Winning Women's Vote: Female Suffrage in Portugal, Maria Lucia Amaral and Teresa Anjinho Index
