Emancipation Party

The Emancipation Party was a political party in the Resurgent Dream during party realignment in 2005. It emerged from the Danaan Modernist Party and later merged into the Progressive Democratic Party. The Emancipation Party was an explicitly feminist political party focused largely on securing women's rights within the workplace, liberalizing divorce and birth control laws and providing for more effective legal protections against domestic abuse and marital rape.

Beatrice Wake and Katy Anthony, both Modernist MPs from Wintermore, co-founded the party after the dissolution of the Modernist Party.

The party never commanded more than a small handful of seats in the Danaan Parliament. However, because of its role in various coalitions, the party was in Government for the entirety of its existence, first as part of the National Unity Government of Minerva Karamanlis and then as part of the Progressive Coalition Government of Adair Scott.

The Emancipation Party had only limited sucess in getting its program approved by its coalition partners. While both the Karamanlis and the Scott Governments were completely supportive of stronger protections for women and children within the home, they expressed no serious support for liberalization of the laws on divorce and abortion, policies which would, ironically, receive a more sympathetic hearing from the Sacker Government after the Emancipation Party no longer had an independent existence.

When the bulk of the Emancipation Party merged itself into the newly formed Progressive Democratic Party, a few of the party's more radical members, under the leadership of Katy Anthony, split off into the Danaan Women's Party instead. The split also ended the personal relationship between Wake and Anthony.