The Modern Woman's Rights Movement

The Modern Woman's Rights Movement

Kaethe Schirmacher

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 Excerpt: ...Suffrage Alliance. The Report of the International Woman's Suffrage Congress, Amsterdam, 1908, explains in a very lucid manner the political backwardness of the Swiss women: Switzerland regards itself as the model democracy; time has been required to make it clear that politically the women of this model state still have everything to achieve. The meeting of the Committee of the International Council of Women in Geneva (September, 1908) accomplished much for the movement. The Swiss Woman's Public Utility Association, which had refused to join the Swiss Federation of Women's Clubs because the Federation concerned itself with political affairs (the Public Utility Association wishing to restrict itself to public utilities only), was given this instructive answer by Professor Hilty: \"Public utility and politics are not mutually exclusive; an educated woman that wishes to make a living without troubling herself about politics is incomprehensible to me. The women ought to take Carlyle's words to heart: 'We are not here to submit to everything, but also to oppose, carefully to watch, and to win.'\" Germany Total population: 61,720,529. Women: 31,259,429. Men: 30,461,100. German Federation of Women's Clubs. Woman's Suffrage League. In no European country has the woman's rights movement been confronted with more unfavorable conditions; nowhere has it been more persistently opposed. In recent times the women of no other country have lived through conditions of war such as the German women underwent during the Thirty Years' War and from 1807 to 1812. Such violence leaves a deep imprint on the character of a nation. Moreover, it has been the fate of no other civilized nation to owe its political existence to a war triumphantly fought out in less than one gener...

Chapter 1 THE GERMANIC COUNTRIES

The United States of America 2

Australia 42

Great Britain 58

Canada 96

South Africa 100

The Scandinavian Countries 101-126

Sweden 103

Finland 110

Norway 116

Denmark 122

The Netherlands 126

Switzerland 133

Germany 143

Luxemburg 157

German Austria 158

Hungary 169

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