Compare The Tactics Of The Suffragettes

Evaluate the tactics he suffragettes used to achieve equality for women in the early 20th century?

The changing role of women at the turn of the century gave way for the suffragette moment to become prevelant throughout Europe. The suffragettes were known as a extremist political group. Unlike the peaceful, non violent suffragists, the suffragettes used violent extreme tactics to get their message across. Emily Davison was a pinnacle person in the movement as she died for what she believed in. World War One enabled women to become part of the workforce which led to women getting the right to vote.

The Suffragettes were a political group in England fighting for women to get the right to vote. They believed that every human both male and female should have the right to vote as this gave them a voice in a predominately patriarchal society. The group was started

Many women involved in the organisation were arrested and imprisoned. However , many women went on hunger strikes starving themselves in order to get their message across. They were forced fed in prisons until the Prisoners Temporary Discharge for Ill-Health Act was passed in Parliament in 1913. This meant that women were released when they were too weak then arrested again. In saying that, the suffragettes started as a peaceful group. It was only when Annie Kenney and Christabel intruded a political meeting asking politicians if women should have the right to vote that things got violent. "This was the beginning of a campaign the like of which was never known in England, or for that matter in any other country..." (Emmeline Pankhurst, 'My Own Story' 1914). They chained themselves to Buckingham Palace as the Royals were disapproving of women having the right go vote. They also vandalised Oxford Street, breaking the windows of the shops. However, this was no as tragic as the death of the suffragette Emily