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Question: How far did the experience of the First World War enable women in the combatant states to extend their political rights?
Answer: The extension of women’s political rights is described as crucial to “further improvements in the role and status of women” . In Europe, the early twentieth century saw significant extensions in the political rights of women (and previously excluded men). Debate surrounds how far the experience of the First World War contributed to these extensions or whether they were bought about by feminist campaigns or the rise of a “general democratic ideology” , which also extended men’s political rights. In this instance political rights will discussed in reference to voting rights.
It will be demonstrated that the experience of the First World War did little to enable women in the combatant states to extend their political rights. It will be argued that where women’s political rights were extended, it occurred due to a rise in the ideology of democracy as a “force for moderatio...(short extract)
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- Subject: World War 1 and 2
- Course: AA312
- Level: Degree
- Year: 2nd/3rd
- Mark: 72%
- Words: 1986
- Date submitted: January 13, 2009
- Date written: April, 2007
- References: Yes
- Document type: Essay*
- Essay ID: 89
