The Rise and Evolution of Women’s Rights and The Creation of a New Female Voice

Abstract

This dissertation examins the history of the origins of the Women’s Liberation Movements (WLM) in Britain circa 1902-1933.Whilst we have well-established studies and documentations on the Suffrage Movements in England, Little work has been done on the background of this new social political movements in Britain as a whole, more precisely, Scotland. Examining life histories particularly from the perspective of the roots of feminism and women’s revolutions and fight for their rights all over Britain, this dissertation will examine the Scottish suffrage movements and seeks to demonstrate that Women’s Liberation has been empowered and was based on the substantial union and presence of not only women from England, but also from Scotland. This dissertation also seeks to contribute to the gradual growing historiography of Women’s liberation in England as well as in Scotland, and to create a picture of the women who made 'first wave feminism' a movement.