[Buddha-l] Conze's Memoirs

[jkirk]

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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At 10:40 PM 1/20/2009, K.M. wrote
>Also, why was Conze against democracy and feminism (according to
Wikipedia)?


He was a brilliant, but very odd man.

For DjVu  try the fourth file from the top:


http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=32953




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