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Over 100 years ago, a board game was released called Suffragetto. The game pitted Suffragettes –women seeking the right to vote – against London police, with players basically orchestrating running street battles between the groups. It's easy to look at the setting as a sensationalized product of the times – oh no, the women are rebelling! – but there's historical grounds for the combative setting, with the movement in the U.K. (women wouldn’t be granted full voting rights until 1928) characterized by an escalation from peaceful protest to acts of arson and even bombings… “Suffragetto is a way to interact with the kind of physical feminism promoted by the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU), through leisure, and enacts feminist ideology in a hybrid fantasy-real world environment. Further, it allows players to experiment with alternative forms of resistance.” Renee M. Shelby, doctoral student in the School of History and Sociology (HSOC), Georgia Institute of Technology
 

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