Men and the Suffrage
Around the turn of the last century the suffrage was a crucial political issue in Europe and North America. Granting the disenfranchised groups, all women and a proportion of men, the suffrage would foreseeably have lasting effects on the structure of society and its gendered organization. According...
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ftopinvisindi:oai:opinvisindi.is:20.500.11815/252 2024-09-15T18:14:12+00:00 Men and the Suffrage Kristmundsdóttir, Sigríður Dúna Félags og mannvísindadeild (HÍ) Faculty of Social and Human Sciences (UI) Félagsvísindasvið (HÍ) School of Social Sciences (UI) Háskóli Íslands University of Iceland 2016-12-19 259-276 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11815/252 https://doi.org/10.13177/irpa.a.2016.12.2.4 en eng Stofnun stjórnsýslufræða og stjórnmála við Háskóla Íslands Stjórnmál og stjórnsýsla;12(2) http://www.irpa.is/article/viewFile/2485/pdf Sigríður Dúna Kristmundsdóttir. (2016). Men and the Suffrage. Stjórnmál og stjórnsýsla, 12(2), 259-276. doi:10.13177/irpa.a.2016.12.2.4 1670-6803 1670-679X (e-ISSN) https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11815/252 Icelandic Review of Politics & Administration doi:10.13177/irpa.a.2016.12.2.4 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Suffrage Men Gendered organization of society Kosningaréttur Kvenréttindamál Karlar info:eu-repo/semantics/article 2016 ftopinvisindi https://doi.org/20.500.11815/25210.13177/irpa.a.2016.12.2.4 2024-07-09T03:01:56Z Around the turn of the last century the suffrage was a crucial political issue in Europe and North America. Granting the disenfranchised groups, all women and a proportion of men, the suffrage would foreseeably have lasting effects on the structure of society and its gendered organization. Accordingly, the suffrage was hotly debated. Absent in this debate were the voices of disenfranchised men and this article asks why this was so. No research has been found on why these men did not fight for their suffrage while women ́s fight for their suffrage has been well researched. Within this context, the article examines the case of Iceland, in terms of issues such as the importance of urbanization, social change and culturally defined perceptions of men and women as social persons. It is argued that men did not have the same impetus as women to fight for their suffrage, and that if they had wanted to they were in certain respects disadvantaged compared to women. The gendered organization of society emerges as central in explaining why women fought for their suffrage and men did not, and why women’s suffrage received more attention than men’s general suffrage. As a case study, offering a microcosmic view of the subject in one social and cultural context, it allows for comparison with other like studies and with ongoing social processes. Peer Reviewed Ritrýnt tímarit Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland Opin vísindi (Iceland) Veftímaritið Stjórnmál og stjórnsýsla 12 2 259 |
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Around the turn of the last century the suffrage was a crucial political issue in Europe and North America. Granting the disenfranchised groups, all women and a proportion of men, the suffrage would foreseeably have lasting effects on the structure of society and its gendered organization. Accordingly, the suffrage was hotly debated. Absent in this debate were the voices of disenfranchised men and this article asks why this was so. No research has been found on why these men did not fight for their suffrage while women ́s fight for their suffrage has been well researched. Within this context, the article examines the case of Iceland, in terms of issues such as the importance of urbanization, social change and culturally defined perceptions of men and women as social persons. It is argued that men did not have the same impetus as women to fight for their suffrage, and that if they had wanted to they were in certain respects disadvantaged compared to women. The gendered organization of society emerges as central in explaining why women fought for their suffrage and men did not, and why women’s suffrage received more attention than men’s general suffrage. As a case study, offering a microcosmic view of the subject in one social and cultural context, it allows for comparison with other like studies and with ongoing social processes. Peer Reviewed Ritrýnt tímarit |
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Félags og mannvísindadeild (HÍ) Faculty of Social and Human Sciences (UI) Félagsvísindasvið (HÍ) School of Social Sciences (UI) Háskóli Íslands University of Iceland |
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Stjórnmál og stjórnsýsla;12(2) http://www.irpa.is/article/viewFile/2485/pdf Sigríður Dúna Kristmundsdóttir. (2016). Men and the Suffrage. Stjórnmál og stjórnsýsla, 12(2), 259-276. doi:10.13177/irpa.a.2016.12.2.4 1670-6803 1670-679X (e-ISSN) https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11815/252 Icelandic Review of Politics & Administration doi:10.13177/irpa.a.2016.12.2.4 |
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