Women's Suffrage in Great Britain

This study examined the pursuit of women's suffrage in Great Britain. The thesis of his study was that the thrust of the women's suffrage movement in Great Britain was much more than a quest for voting rights: It was an international model for a pursuit of social justice.

The pursuit of social justice by women in Great Britain involved all aspects of society ? labor, family life, political participation, education, property rights, and full social equality. The quest for women's suffrage, thus, was a part of the wider pursuit for social justice; it was a step in the march of progress for women. Within this broader context, the women's suffrage movement in Great Britain was an early manifestation of the feminist movement (Garner, 1984).

Hermeneutics is the name given to social science and philosophical methodology that seeks to interpret meanings of given social and political contexts and the significance of discrete social and political phenomena and human experience more generally. Traditionally, the term has been associated with textual analysis, mainly biblical exegesis, but over time, and especially in recent years, it has been enlarged and absorbed by a whole range of disciplines in search of interpretive strategies and explanatory power consistent with the scientific method. According to Bontekoe (1996), the evolution and enlargement of hermeneutics has been largely to the good. Bontekoe (1996) essentially argues that hermeneu

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. Each of the major women's suffrage organizations in Great Britain has unique tactics and uses different means of advertising their goals and activities. In the years preceding the First World War, the contributions of each of the organizations in the pursuit of social justice, including women's suffrage, were significant (Mayhall, 1999). In 1941, however, the WSPU led be Emmeline Pankhurst declared its own war on the sitting Liberal Party government in Great Britain because of the refusal of the Prime Minister to allow an enfranchisement bill for women to come before the House of Commons for a vote. Rather, the government pursued Ms Pankhurst, her oldest daughter, Christabel (also a leader in the movement), and labor union leaders on charges of conspiracy to aid the enemy by pursuing their social justice objectives in wartime. Emmeline Pankhurst spent the better part of two years in and out of jail (Rosen 1974). In 1916, however, Emmeline Pankhurst (1916) urged the government not to include women's suffrage in a reform bill because such an attempt "might jeopardize extending the franchise to serving soldier and sailors" (p. 260). Many suffragettes, however, maintained an anti-war stance throughout the First World War (V

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