How Women’s Suffrage Was Devalued: The Burden of Analytical Categories and the Conceptual History of Democracy

• Autores: Jussi Kurunmäki
• Localización: Parliamentarism and Democratic Theory: historical and contemporary perspectives / Kari Palonen (dir.), José María Rosales Jaime (dir.), 2015, ISBN 978-3-8474-0158-2, págs. 31-52
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Despite the historical association of democracy with women’s suffrage and despite the fact that every serious account in political theory has for a long time recognised women as being equal to men as political citizens, women’s voting rights have played a minor role in the ways in which the timing of the transition to democracy has been addressed. As Pamela Paxton has noted, it has been quite possible to maintain that the United States has been a democracy since 1828, even if women gained equal voting rights only in 1920