ID: 9279  -  Valerio Massimo De Angelis  -  Macerata
Type: Text
   Women and Government
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Medium: ArticleExtent: 13 KB
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Source: The Freewoman. A Weekly Feminist Review. I 5 21 December 1911: 85-86
Title: Women and GovernmentSubtitle:
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Agents:
Creator: Billington-Greig, Teresa
Role: AuthorName: Billington-Greig, Teresa
Created: 1911-12-21
Date: Issuedin/on: 1911-12-21
Language: English
Rights: Owned
Relation: IsPartOfQualifier: The Freewoman. A Weekly Feminist Review. I 5 21 December 1911: 85-86
Coverage:
Place: Great BritainTime: 1911
Description: Editorial criticizing the suffragists' obession with women's vote and their faith in the functioning of the democratic
Subjects: Gender/Sexuality
Subjects: Cultural Practices
Subjects: Places
Subjects: Definitions of Culture
Subjects: Gender/Sexuality
Subjects: Gender/Sexuality
Subjects: Definitions of Culture
Keywords: emancipation
Keywords: technology
Keywords: House of Commons
Keywords: democracy
Keywords: suffrage
Keywords: suffragism
Keywords: government
Query Subject+Keyword: (Gender/Sexuality, emancipation)
Query Subject+Keyword: (Cultural Practices, technology)
Query Subject+Keyword: (Places, House of Commons)
Query Subject+Keyword: (Definitions of Culture, democracy)
Query Subject+Keyword: (Gender/Sexuality, suffrage)
Query Subject+Keyword: (Gender/Sexuality, suffragism)
Query Subject+Keyword: (Definitions of Culture, government)
Comment: In this article Teresa Billington-Greig plays on the metaphor of the "machine" to describe the functioning of the democratic institutions in order to expose how the techology of political representation hids the reality of an oligarchic system, that will not be healed even if women gain the right to vote. On the "secondariness" of women's suffrage for the advancement of the condition of women here Billington-Greig seems to agree with what Dora Marsden writes in the "Notes of the Week" of the first issue of The Freewoman, where she states that political enfranchisement is only a "branch issue" of feminism (see record 8446).