By Lee Ann Banaszak
Notwithstanding there are huge numbers of books at the girl suffrage pursuits within the U.S. and Britain, and a smattering of books at the suffrage events of alternative international locations, this is often one of many only a few books to examine what evaluating those pursuits can let us know concerning the components for fulfillment of those pursuits (and the elements for failure). a massive and lucid step within the scholarship on lady suffrage pursuits and social hobbies extra more often than not.
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Mass media involve communication through indirect observation; examples include party newspapers, religious pamphlets, and Army recruitment advertisements. Social interaction and impersonal transmission do not play equal roles in the formation of values and beliefs. Although technological advances have greatly increased the amount of information available through the mass media, personal interaction is still more important in the creation of perceptions and even in the communication of information (Grofman and Norrander 1990).
Women’s organizations did not promote women’s enfranchisement among a wider audience (as did their American contemporaries), preferring instead to stress other issues. The Union des femmes, one of the earliest women’s associations in Genève, is typical of women’s organizations during this period. Its main activities were providing social services for working women and fostering moral reform, but it also held occasional open discussions of women’s rights (Woodtli 1983: 68). 1910–1929: The Rise of the Suffrage Issue It was only in the late 1910s that voting rights for women reached the public agenda and the fledgling woman suffrage movement took root in Switzerland.
When a general strike was called in February of 1918, the strike committee also included women’s voting rights on its list of demands. 5 This motion, asking the government (Bundesrat) to consider enfranchising women, passed the Nationalrat but neither the Bundesrat nor the other branch of Parliament (the Ständerat) took any further action for almost forty years. Between 1910 and 1929, woman suffrage legislation was also discussed for the first time in 11 of the 25 cantons; in 7 cantons referenda were held.