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One of the publicity tools used by British and then American suffragists was theatre. Suffragist theatre was written for a clear purpose, which was none other than political propaganda and performance as part of the campaign being conducted. In many cases, the plays performed reflected the situation in which women lived, denouncing their circumstances; in others, they were didactic works, explaining in a very simple and clear way the actions that were being carried out to secure women's rights.

This article looks into the Uruguayan feminist internationalism of the early decades of the 20th century through the analysis of the "intellectual networks" forged by doctor Paulina Luisi. It particularly follows her contacts with several other academic leaders of the Argentine feminist movement. To do so, we focus on Luisi's private correspondence with these women. Those letters reveal how their common issues and concerns crossed State borders and led them to undertake joint action, including campaigns supporting the ban on prostitution, equal ethics for both sexes, or the "social hygiene" movement. But they also show their disagreements about the strategies to be followed in order to achieve their feminist goals. Those discrepancies, tainted with personal misgivings, eventually stood in the way of the achievement of their goals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

When understanding feminist theory, it is essential to consider all its layers as well as their impact on women's rights and freedom. However, feminism, over the course of its existence, has mainly focused on white, middle-class women, whereas other minority groups have remained repressed and silenced. In that regard, intersectional feminism, alongside other feminist movements, emerged as a reaction against the injustices and struggles that women and other minorities in North America had to endure in several aspects of their lives such as social marginalisation or racial segregation. Pioneers like Lucretia Mott and Sojourner Truth, among others, created an intersectional feminist prototype that was centuries ahead of its time. Accordingly, this essay intends to portrait their efforts to disavow the structures of power imposed on women, not only to create a new order in which all women are equal, regardless of their race, sexual orientation or class status, but also to create a new order in which men and women have equal rights. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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En Bahía, provincia del noreste de Brasil, la lucha feminista comienza aparecer en los periódicos baianos a partir de 1912, mediante los relatos de actos terroristas practicados por las sufragistas inglesas. En este trabajo se analiza el discurso feminista presente en la prensa baiana en el período comprendido entre 1912 y 1934, buscando identificar sus características, concepciones, líneas de acción y principales consignas, así como las formas de relación establecidas con el Estado y con las oligarquías locales.In the State of Bahia, in the Brazilian Northeast region, feminist struggles began to appear in the local press around 1912, through news about terrorist actions carried out by British suffragists. This work analyzes feminist discourse in the Bahian press during the period 1912-1934, focusing on the identification of its characteristics, conceptions, lines of action and major issues, as well as on the forms of relationships established with the State and with local oligarchies.

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In 1894, a young Polish writer Maria Komornicka comes to Cambridge to study in all-female Newnham College. Her stay there is later commemorated in a series of reportage published in instalments in Przegląd Pedagogiczny [Pedagogical Review] in 1896. The title of this reportage, "Raj Młodzie380;y. Wspomnienia z Cambridge" [Youth's Paradise. Memoirs from Cambridge], is an ironic one, as the late-nineteenth century England described by her is far from idyllic, especially when seen from the perspective of a suffragette. In this work, Komornicka criticizes gender relations among the English youth, and poses herself in contrast with female students in Cambridge, whose emancipatory zeal she sees as not radical enough; in contrast to Slavic souls like herself, Komornicka claims, English ladies are opportunistic and bound by conventions. Thus, Cambridge becomes in her eyes "a factory of mediocrity," and only after six months abroad she decides to return to Warsaw. The paper below presents a detailed analysis of this series of reportage, complementing it with a commentary which examines Komornicka's harsh criticism of her English contemporaries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyses the character and thinking of Ángela Acuña Braun, one of the first women who defined herself as a feminist in the country, in the context of the configuration of the Costa Rican democracy during the first part of the XXth century. The thoughts and actions of Acuña are also analyzed in relation to the international suffragist movement and to the ideas that gave birth to this social movement that struggled to guarantee women's equal rights in western democracies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the State of Bahia, in the Brazilian Northeast region, feminist struggles began to appear in the local press around 1912, through news about terrorist actions carried out by British suffragists. This work analyzes feminist discourse in the Bahian press during the period 1912-1934, focusing on the identification of its characteristics, conceptions, lines of action and major issues, as well as on the forms of relationships established with the State and with local oligarchies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]