"The Ballot Humbug" : Anarchist Women and Women’s Suffrage

• This article explores how anarchist women viewed the feminist struggle for suffrage in theearly 1900s. By focusing on this alleged, historical anomaly – women against patriarchyrefuting the call for women’s suffrage – the article impels historical multiplicity. Thehistoriographic wave metaphor, typically employed to portray intensity of feministadvancements, is here regenerated in terms of radio waves. Through a variety ofpublications by influential anarchist women, the article tunes in to a broadcast that airs howanarchy expels patriarchy through a generic struggle against hierarchy. Here the historicalcase of anarchist women and women’s suffrage arguably signposts how to elude ateleological history writing of social movements.

Ämnesord

HUMANIORA  -- Historia och arkeologi -- Historia (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- History and Archaeology -- History (hsv//eng)

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Sociologi -- Sociologi (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Sociology -- Sociology (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

anarchism

historiography

social movement

history of political thought

women's suffrage

suffragette

Emma Goldman

He-Yen Zhen

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