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Technique and Ethos in Nonviolent Action: The Woman Suffrage Case
Author(s) -
Lakey George
Publication year - 1968
Publication title -
sociological inquiry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.446
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1475-682X
pISSN - 0038-0245
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-682x.1968.tb00671.x
Subject(s) - suffrage , ethos , ideology , militant , feminism , constitution , politics , power (physics) , veto , sociology , law , direct action , action (physics) , political science , gender studies , physics , quantum mechanics
The Woman's Party, a militant woman's suffrage organization, was active in nonviolent protests from 1916 through 1919. The party members, who drew their inspiration from the woman suffrage movement in Great Britain, were predominately middle and upper class. They were motivated to protest by the descrepancy between their relatively high social status and their relatively low political power. Although they continued to agitate for equal rights after the suffrage ammendment became part of the Constitution, they did not generalize their concern to an explicitly pacifist ethic but continued to emphasize the particularistic ideology of feminism.