Vote and Gender Equality.The Evolution of the Women’s Struggle for the Acquirement of Political Rights in the Second Half of the XIXth Century and the First Half of the XXth Century
Journal Title: Analele Universitatii Ovidius Constanta Seria Istorie - Year 2006, Vol 3, Issue 0
Abstract
The last decades have been marked by the intensification of the human rights discourses, closely connected to the efforts of many minorities to assert their own identity. Since the ’70s, we are witnessing the re-evaluation of certain traditional concepts of feminist political theories, in order to prove the importance of the affiliation to a specific gender in the construction of political theories. The main goal of this article is to highlight some aspects of women’s struggle for the acquirement of civil and political rights, more exactly of the right to vote and to identify some distinct features of the feminist movement in Romania regarding the struggle for electoral rights. Women’s struggle for civil and political rights was, by far, one of the most difficult actions in the history of the feminist movements in Europe or America, because the claim for these rights was considered by the majority of the male population a great immoderacy. In Romania, the idea of attainment of civil and political rights by women became a public matter in the second half of the XIXth century, closely related to the democratization process. If we were to make a historical excursion into the legal status of women, we will find that the emancipation of Romanian women concurs with the general process of women’s emancipation in the countries with the oldest democratic tradition.
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Mihaela Melinte
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