[Buddha-l] Conze's Memoirs

[jkirk]

yup--I took qquickie list off of some website 


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Christopher Fynn
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 8:51 PM
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Subject: Re: [Buddha-l] Conze's Memoirs

Joanna,

You forgot:

1971 - Switzerland


- Chris


jkirk wrote:
> How about this? at the time he was writing, did women in the
"western 
> world" have the vote yet? For half of his lifetime
> (1904-1979) women had just barely begun to get the vote, so if
he 
> wasn't a feminist, no surprise:
> 
> Timeline of women getting the vote:
> 1869 - Wyoming Territory in the USA is the first place in the
world to 
> give votes to women.
> 1893 - New Zealand is the first country to give women the vote.

> 1906 - Finland is the first country in Europe to give women the
vote.
> 1917 - Russia
> 1918 -  Germany, Canada, Austria. 
> 1920 - The USA, but not Native American women.
> 1925 - Italy
> 1928 - United Kingdom (full), Ireland 1930 - South Africa , but
only 
> to white women.
> 1931 - Spain
> 1932 - Brazil
> 1944 - France
> 1945 - Italy
> 
> As for democracy--it still has a bad name because of the ways
it has 
> been perverted.
> 
> Cheers, Joanna
> ========================================
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