Despite its clear demeaning nature, the Suffragettes embraced this name.
Emmeline Pankhurst became involved in the Women's Suffrage Movement in 1880. Frustrated by the lack of progress, she broke away from the NUWSS and organized the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) in 1903 in order to progress the movement in a more direct manner.
Despite its clear demeaning nature, the Suffragettes embraced this name.
Compared to the NUWSS, who were mainly middle and upper class women, the Suffragettes fought for universal women’s suffrage, thus including women of all classes and, sometimes, other races.
"Indian Suffragettes in the Women's Coronation Procession, London, on June 17, 1911", 1911, The Museum of London
Princess Sophia Duleep Singh selling subscriptions for the Suffragette newspaper outside Hampton Court in London, 1913, The British Library
Princess Sophia Duleep Singh, daughter of Punjab Maharaja Duleep Singh, was a prominent Suffragette.
The motto of this union encompassed the methods of this movement:
