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.

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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Blanca Rodríguez-Ruiz and Ruth Rubio-Marín -- Introduction: Transition to Modernity, the Conquest of Female Sufffrage and Women’s Citizenship / Blanca Rodríguez-Ruiz and Ruth Rubio-Marín -- A Long Tradition of Equality: Women’s Sufffrage 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 / Toma Birmontiene and Virginija Jureniene -- Winning Women’s Vote: Experience from Latvia / Aija Branta -- Sufffrage 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 Sufffrage / Malgorzata Fuszara -- Female Sufffrage 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 Sufffrage in Austria / Birgitta Bader-Zaar -- Mothers of the Nation: Women’s Vote in the Czech Republic / Dana Musilová -- The Contexts of National and Gender Belonging: The History of Female Sufffrage in Slovakia / L’ubica Kobová -- How Women Gained Sufffrage in Sweden: A Weave of Alliances / Lena Wängnerud -- Divisions and Debates: The Irish Sufffrage Experience / Myrtle Hill -- Female Sufffrage in Great Britain / Krista Cowman -- Constructing Women’s Citizenship: The Conquest of Sufffrage and Women’s Political Rights in Spain / Ana Aguado -- The Difficult Struggle for Women’s Political Rights in France / Sylvie Chaperon -- Women’s Sufffrage in Bulgaria / Krassimira Daskalova -- Female Sufffrage in Slovenia / Irena Selišnik -- The Achievement of Female Sufffrage in Romania / Roxana Cheschebec -- From the Struggle for Sufffrage to the Construction of a Fragile Gender Citizenship: Italy 1861–2009 / Susanna Mancini -- Female Sufffrage in Malta / Ruth Farrugia -- Caught Between Strategic Positions and Principles of Equality: Female Sufffrage in Belgium / Petra Meier -- Development Def?ined by Paradoxes: Hungarian History and Female Sufffrage / Csilla Kollonay-Lehoczky -- So Difficult to be Considered as Citizens: The History of Women’s Sufffrage in Greece, 1864–2001 / Demetra Samiou -- Women’s Sufffrage in Cyprus / Kalliope Agapiou-Josephides -- Winning Women’s Vote: Female Sufffrage in Portugal / Maria Lúcia Amaral and Teresa Anjinho -- Index / Blanca Rodríguez-Ruiz and Ruth Rubio-Marín.