Ejercicios sobre la Película Sufragistas, Ejercicios de Historia

¡Descarga Ejercicios sobre la Película Sufragistas y más Ejercicios en PDF de Historia solo en Docsity! 1.Make a summary of the fight for the female suffrage that you have watched in the movie, and also research with some more information about it. The film is set in London, in 1912, before the First World War. It represents the fight for female suffrage, using as main character Maud Watts, a woman who has worked in an industrial laundry since she was a child. The first appearance of a suffragist fight is a violent attack on a shop, which represents what they stand for: “Deeds, not words”. After this, suffragists use the testimony of various women in the Parliament, to convince of a reform in the law, including Maud, who reveals the inhuman threat she received, including the abuse of her boss. Unfortunately, this isn’t enough to provoke a change in the minds of the men of the Government. This led to a general discontent and so to an uprising. This ended with several imprisonments, but it didn’t stop the fight. Emmeline Pankhurst, an activist considered the leader of the movement, gives a talk to motivate the spirits of suffragists, but the police intervene trying to arrest Pankhurst. It ended with several arrests, but none of the women were jailed. At this point, we see how those who fought for their right to vote had their personal lives affected. For example Maud is kicked out of his house, and one of her coworkers, Violet, is fired. Despite all the difficulties, the suffragist movement continued working. The acts started being more and more violent, like blowing mail boxes or cutting telephone cables. Despite this, the media didn’t pay attention to them so they decided to do a direct attack on the house of a minister. But even this isn’t enough. The last act of fight is the death of Emily Davison, who is considered the martyr of the suffragist movement. The film shows very precisely the female suffrage movement in reality. It is considered to have started around 1840, but until the 20th century the movement didn’t have any results. For example, in Great Britain, the country in which the movie is set, wasn’t successful until 1918. It was necessary the effort of women all around the world to achieve its objective, although there are still some countries where not all can vote. Some of the women with most importance to the suffragists movement were Emmeline Pankhurst, Emily Davison, Carmen Karr, Carrie Chapman Catt and Clara Campoamor. 2. Who was Emmeline Pankhurst? She was a britanic activist who supported the female suffrage movement. She is considered one of the most influential persons of the XX century, as her ideas impulsed a new structure of the society. She founded the Women’s Social and Political Union in 1903 and its members were called suffragists. She tried several “peaceful” ways, like moderate speeches and promises, to achieve its objective. But seeing that all the efforts weren’t productive she made a change in their directive. She created the WSPU which collected signatures, convened reunions and published a newsletter called “Votes for women”. Their motto was “Deeds, not words.”. Although their intentions weren’t violent at a start, after an altercation, Pankhurst saw it was a success which eventually led to a tactic intensification. The last thing to add is that, even after being jailed several times and that the movement sometimes appeared useless, she didn’t give up at any point, and that is one of the reasons why female suffrage is present nowadays in most of the countries. 3. Comment on the main important things that these women achieved. Use your own words and go to the important things. - Clara Campoamor: She was a Spanish politician, writer, lawyer and defender of the rights of women. She created the Republican Women’s Union and was one of the main impulses of the female suffrage movement. She was, along with Victoria Kent and Margarita Melken, one of the first women deputies in Spain, and she defended the right of women to vote in front of a court, achieving its approval. Other rights that she defended for women were the right to divorce, equality to sons and daughters born in and out of the marriage and no discrimination with reason of sex. She also wrote “The femenine vote and I: My mortal sin”, which exposes her fight for female suffrage. - Olympe de Gouges: She was a French writer and philosophical politician. She wrote the Declaration of the Rights of Women and Citizens, in 1971, a text that paraphrased the Declaration of the Rights of Men and Citizens, as a proposal of equality between men and women. Olympe had revolutionary thinking, defending equality in both private and public. She also wanted to abolish slavery, but because of his defense to girondins, she was executed in the guillotene. - Emily Davison: Emily was a British activist and is considered the martyr of the suffragist movement. She studied at the school of St. Hugh’s, belonging to the University of Oxford, but she couldn’t do a grade in Oxford due to the sexism. She affiliated with the WSPU, and while she fighted for her rights she was jailed several times. At last, the event which made her to be considered the martyr of the suffragist movement was in the Derby of Epsom the 4th of June in 1913, where she was trying to put a suffragist ban in a horse but a miscalculation led to her being brutally beaten by the horse of the king George IV. She is remembered because of this accidental sacrifice in favor of women's vote. 4. When could women vote in Spain for the first time? Womens gained the right to vote the 1stof October of 1931, after years of fighting and failing. Before suffragism achieved its goal in Spain there were some attempts which weren’t successful. For example, women voted in the Canton of Cartagena, in the destruction of the rest of it. Also, while Primo de Rivero exercised his dictatorship, there was an attempt of recognising the women vote. Unfortunately, it couldn’t never be exercised.At last, the suffragist movement achieved its objective in 1931, thanks to the intervention of Clara Campoamor in front of the Commission. After the approval, women voted for the first time in all the Spanish territories in the municipal elections held on April 23, in 1933 and in the general elections held on November 19, in 1933. 5.In which countries women can not vote nowadays? There are actually 3 countries in the world who have a conditioned or negated suffrage. These countries are Brunei and the United Arab Emirates, which have conditioned vote for women, and Vatican City, which is completely forbidden.