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This episode of
Moriarty the Patriot gave me the wild urge to have the show rework history a bit to see how the Lord of Crime would have felt about militant suffragist Emmaline Pankhurst. Although her heyday came a bit later (she founded the Women s Social and Political Union in 1903), her fierce devotion to her cause may well have spoken to the Moriarty brothers, much as the fictional MP Adam Whitely does. Like Pankhurst, Whitely is a champion of voting reforms (how he would reform things isn t really dealt with in the episode), and unlike the Moriartys, he s going through official channels. This is gaining him quite a bit of notoriety and anger from the House of Lords, who certainly don t want to make things any easier or better for those they see as beneath them. But can Whitely really be as good as he seems to be?
Print Edition: March 28, 2012
Having difficulties forging through the terms and history of feminism? No worries! Sasha and leanna tackle the ins-and-outs of what, exactly, feminism is, was and ought to be.
Leanna: As Emmaline Pankhurst, twentieth century womens’ rights activist, said in one of her many famous speeches, “Men make the moral code and they expect women to accept it … They have decided that it is entirely right and proper for men to fight for their liberties and their rights, but that it is not right and proper for women to fight for theirs.”
This quote sums up the original intent of feminism: the movement from a patriarchal, male-dominated society to one that offers equal rights between genders, beginning with allowing women the right to vote.
Battalion of Death : Russia s Controversial Women s Battalion in World War I
The roles of women in World War I took an interesting turn in 1917, when Russia looked to her brave female soldiers to boost morale.
Here s What You Need to Know: Among the so-called Amazons crossing the gender line was Maria “Yasha” Botchkareva.
By spring 1917, Russia had borne the heaviest burden of World War I. Russian reports counted more than six million men killed, wounded, or interned as prisoners of war. This enormous toll had bled the reserve pool of young Russian peasants nearly dry. The Russian Imperial Treasury was effectively bankrupt. Tsar Nicholas was forced to abdicate in March, but the new Russian Revolutionary Provisional Government continued the war against Germany. Its ability to raise morale, however, was scant. Bolshevik antiwar leaflets circulating among the Russian troops already had become one of the German High Command’s most effective weapons on its Eastern Front. Once