The struggle for female suffrage in Europe : voting to become citizens / / edited by Blanca Rodríguez-Ruiz, Ruth Rubio-Marín.

• Superior document: International studies in sociology and social anthropology, v. 122
• TeilnehmendeR: Rodriguez-Ruiz, Blanca.; Rubio-Marín, Ruth.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: International studies in sociology and social anthropology ; v. 122.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (516 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Introduction: Transition to Modernity, the Conquest of Female Sufffrage and Women’s Citizenship /; A Long Tradition of Equality: Women’s Sufffrage in Finland /; Democratisation of Denmark: The Inclusion of Women in Political Citizenship /; The Development of Women’s Rights in Lithuania: Striving for Political Equality /; Winning Women’s Vote: Experience from Latvia /; Sufffrage and the Nation: Women’s Vote in Estonia /; Winning Women’s Vote in Germany /; Polish Women’s Fight for Sufffrage /; Female Sufffrage in Luxembourg /; The Women’s Vote in The Netherlands: From the ‘Houseman’s Vote’ to Full Citizenship /; Gaining the Vote in a World in Transition: Female Sufffrage in Austria /; Mothers of the Nation: Women’s Vote in the Czech Republic /; The Contexts of National and Gender Belonging: The History of Female Sufffrage in Slovakia /; How Women Gained Sufffrage in Sweden: A Weave of Alliances /; Divisions and Debates: The Irish Sufffrage Experience /; Female Sufffrage in Great Britain /; Constructing Women’s Citizenship: The Conquest of Sufffrage and Women’s Political Rights in Spain /; The Difficult Struggle for Women’s Political Rights in France /; Women’s Sufffrage in Bulgaria /; Female Sufffrage in Slovenia /; The Achievement of Female Sufffrage in Romania /; From the Struggle for Sufffrage to the Construction of a Fragile Gender Citizenship: Italy 1861–2009 /; Female Sufffrage in Malta /; Caught Between Strategic Positions and Principles of Equality: Female Sufffrage in Belgium /; Development Def?ined by Paradoxes: Hungarian History and Female Sufffrage /; So Difficult to be Considered as Citizens: The History of Women’s Sufffrage in Greece, 1864–2001 /; Women’s Sufffrage in Cyprus /; Winning Women’s Vote: Female Sufffrage in Portugal /; Index /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 1280772719; 9786613683489; 9004229914
• ISSN: 0074-8684
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Blanca Rodríguez-Ruiz, Ruth Rubio-Marín.

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.