Comments on: Suffragette vs. Suffragist http://herhistory.org/2007/01/18/suffragette-vs-suffragist/ Sun, 20 May 2012 07:57:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: Hugh http://herhistory.org/2007/01/18/suffragette-vs-suffragist/#comment-15678 Sun, 08 Mar 2009 14:57:56 +0000 http://herhistory.org/2007/01/18/suffragette-vs-suffragist/#comment-15678 The Suffragists were first formed in 1897 as the NUWSS under Millicent Fawcett. They were trying to attain female emancipation by legal means such as peaceful protests and campaigns. The Suffragettes were formed as a cut off from the NUWSS as he WSPU and they wanted to use more aggressive methods of gaining the vote. ^^ GCSE history.. The Suffragists were first formed in 1897 as the NUWSS under Millicent Fawcett. They were trying to attain female emancipation by legal means such as peaceful protests and campaigns.
The Suffragettes were formed as a cut off from the NUWSS as he WSPU and they wanted to use more aggressive methods of gaining the vote.

^^ GCSE history..

]]> by: Linda http://herhistory.org/2007/01/18/suffragette-vs-suffragist/#comment-4332 Fri, 16 Nov 2007 20:49:40 +0000 http://herhistory.org/2007/01/18/suffragette-vs-suffragist/#comment-4332 Wikipedia is essentially correct on the difference between suffragist and suffragette. The term suffragist, was used since the mid 19th century to describe supporters of woman suffrage. The suffragette label was first given -- in mockery -- in the early years of the 20th century to Emmeline Pankhurst and her colleagues in Britain, then to Alice Paul and other members of the Congressional Union (later National Woman's Party) who followed a similar strategy of holding the party in power responsible for unequal suffrage. In the US, this put them in the position of campaigning against Representatives and Senators who were personally in favor of equal suffrage and who had actually voted for it in Congress. The tactics of the suffragettes were more militant than the suffragists, although under Carrie Chapman Catt, some of the tactics of mass meetings, parades, and what we would call "PR" were adapted by the NAWSA. Suffragists generally avoided being arrested. The suffragettes made headlines with chaining themselves to the White House gates and hunger strikes while in prison for doing so. As a result, their nickname has persisted (not unlike the "bra burning" feminists that never were) in the media. Wikipedia is essentially correct on the difference between suffragist and suffragette. The term suffragist, was used since the mid 19th century to describe supporters of woman suffrage. The suffragette label was first given — in mockery — in the early years of the 20th century to Emmeline Pankhurst and her colleagues in Britain, then to Alice Paul and other members of the Congressional Union (later National Woman’s Party) who followed a similar strategy of holding the party in power responsible for unequal suffrage. In the US, this put them in the position of campaigning against Representatives and Senators who were personally in favor of equal suffrage and who had actually voted for it in Congress. The tactics of the suffragettes were more militant than the suffragists, although under Carrie Chapman Catt, some of the tactics of mass meetings, parades, and what we would call “PR” were adapted by the NAWSA. Suffragists generally avoided being arrested. The suffragettes made headlines with chaining themselves to the White House gates and hunger strikes while in prison for doing so. As a result, their nickname has persisted (not unlike the “bra burning” feminists that never were) in the media.

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