Women Won the Right to Vote, but Not Yet the Right to Their Bodies

100 YEARS AND COUNTING

The new movie Suffragette shows how ugly the fight for the female vote was and today’s news shows how little it has accomplished in some respects.

Published Oct. 24 2015 12:01AM EDT

articles/2015/10/24/women-won-the-right-to-vote-but-not-yet-the-right-to-their-bodies/151023-irving-suffragettes-tease_e4mfvu — Focus Features

LONDON — A woman’s broken body on the racecourse, the King’s horse and jockey inert on the turf nearby and the whole shocking tableau viewed by a multitude.

Such was the design of a deliberate, desperate and sacrificial act that in the early summer of 1913 changed forever the trajectory of...

Clive Irving

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Women Won the Right to Vote, but Not Yet the Right to Their Bodies

The new movie Suffragette shows how ugly the fight for the female vote was and today’s news shows how little it has accomplished in some respects.

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Clive Irving