Women and Magna Carta: A Treaty for Rights or Wrongs? by Jocelynne A. Scutt

Author:Jocelynne A. Scutt
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781137562364
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2016-11-15T00:00:00+00:00

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No Taxation without Representation

Abstract: Magna Carta barons wanted representation and rights to fairer taxes. Women want the same. Scutt traverses US, UK, Canadian, Aotearoa/New Zealand and Australian women’s campaigns for voting rights and fair taxation based on equal pay. Australia’s Vida Goldstein, Canada’s Nellie McClung, in the US Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the UK’s Barbara Bodichon, Emily Wilding Davison, Dora Montefiore, Annie Kenney and the Pankhursts campaigned for women’s rights. Some voting rights campaigners were prosecuted and tortured by forced-feeding. Some refused to be counted in the 1911 Census. Some refused to pay taxes. Spurred on by injustice, US women of Pawtucket mills, Aotearoa/New Zealand’s Harriet Morison, Canadians, Australians and British women campaigned for industrial rights and equal pay – this a just cause not yet won.

Keywords: equal pay campaigns; women and 1911 Census; women and equal pay; women and the vote; women’s campaign against taxation; women’s taxation rights; women’s vote campaign; women’s voting rights

Scutt, Jocelynne A. Women and Magna Carta: A Treaty for Rights or Wrongs? Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. DOI: 10.1057/9781137562357.0008.

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