Women's Rights
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of approximately 900 objects related to women's rights in Glasgow which date from between 1840 and 2001. This collection contains photographs, drawings, badges, medals, banners and costume. It also contains leaflets, posters, cards, magazines, ceramics, trophies and other presentation items. These items reflect the overall campaign by women to be given equal status with men legally, politically, in education and at work. They cover the period from the politicization that came through involvement in the chartist and anti-slavery movements of the early 19th century to the women's liberation movement of the late 20th century. Artefacts related to the campaigns for women's suffrage make up a significant part of the collection. Most of these were collected by a Glasgow suffragette and gifted to Glasgow Museums in 1955. Other items relate to girls' education, birth control, Women's Aid and the Women's movement of the 1980s. There are also objects that represent the opposition to women's rights campaigns, such as an anti-women's suffrage poster and cards.
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