No Taxation without Representation

Abstract

Magna Carta barons wanted representation and rights to fairer taxes. Women want the same. Scutt traverses US, UK, Canadian, Aotearoa/New Zealand and Australian women’s campaigns for voting rights and fair taxation based on equal pay. Australia’s Vida Goldstein, Canada’s Nellie McClung in the US Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the UK’s Barbara Bodichon, Emily Wilding Davison, Dora Montefiore, Annie Kenney and the Pankhursts campaigned for women’s rights. Some voting rights campaigners were prosecuted and tortured by forced-feeding Some refused to be counted in the 1911 Census. Some refused to pay taxes. Spurred on by injustice, US women of Pawtucket mills, Aotearoa/New Zealand’s Harriet Moris on, Canadians, Australians and British women campaigned for industrial rights and equal pay — this a just cause not yet won.