Rapiers and Battleaxes av Josephine Kamm

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<p>The long and bitter struggle for the vote is certainly the most spectacular part of the history of women¿s emancipation. Originally published in 1966 <i>Rapiers and Battleaxes</i> tells the story in its wider aspect and in terms of the pioneers in the various fields.</p><p>Just a hundred years previously ¿ in 1866 ¿ the first women¿s suffrage committee was formed in London with the object of collecting signatures to petition for the enfranchisement of women which John Stuart Mill, MP for Westminster, had undertaken to present in Parliament. Prominent among the committee members were Barbara Bodichon, who had been active ten years earlier in the agitation for the Married Women¿s Property Bill; Emily Davies, pioneer of higher education for women; and Elizabeth Garrett, who was the first woman to obtain a medical training in this country. Among the pioneers also are Mary Wollstonecraft, whose book <i>A Vindication of the Rights of Woman</i> sparked off the women¿s movement; the philant