A century on from the British suffrage campaign,feminists are still told that being pleasing is the best strategy for their success – and it’s still not trueThe unusual film Suffragette, released in Australia on Boxing Day, or begins with female activists smashing London shop windows and bombing the partially completed domestic of the chancellor of the exchequer. It dramatises the militant actions of feminists from 1905 until the outbreak of the first world war,as they sought the right for British women to vote. Related: 'Wayward suffragette' Adela Pankhurst and her remarkable Australian life Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com