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Abstract
This article examines how working-class women helped transform Finland in 1906 into the world’s first nation to grant full women’s suffrage. Activists organized into the League of Working Women fought for full suffrage in the context of an anti-imperial upsurge in Finland and a revolution across the tsarist empire. These women workers simultaneously allied with their male peers and took autonomous action to prevent their exclusion from the vote during the political upheaval of late 1905 and early 1906.In the process they challenged traditional gender norms and articulated a political perspective that tied together the fight against class, gender, and national domination.
Contributor Notes
Eric Blanc is a historian based in Oakland, California. He is the author of a forthcoming monograph, Anti-Colonial Marxism: Oppression & Revolution in the Tsarist Borderlands, 1881–1917 (Historical Materialism Book Series, Brill Publishers). He received his bachelor of arts in modern European history from the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 2006. E-mail: eblanc17@gmail.com