Understanding Women's Suffrage and Prohibition from the Unusual Perspective of Kate Sheppard

De: Derek Dwight Anderson

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

This volume in a series of world history case studies investigates the career of Kate Sheppard, the suffragette and prohibitionist who helped make New Zealand the first place in the world to grant women the right to vote at the national level. The book examines the competing goals and strategies of various organizations, including the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WTCU) and highlights the ways in which the Māori both did and did not factor into the British colony’s political calculus in the late nineteenth century.

This book is a volume in the Understanding World History Through Biography series.