women's suffrage movement
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The women's suffrage movement was a long-running social and political campaign that fought to secure women's legal right to vote and expand their participation in democratic life.
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feminist movement
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political movement → social movement → |
| endDate |
20th century
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| hasIdeology |
egalitarianism
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feminism → liberalism → |
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Finnish parliamentary reform of 1906
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International Woman Suffrage Alliance founding → New Zealand Electoral Act 1893 → Representation of the People Act 1918 → Representation of the People Act 1928 → Seneca Falls Convention → granting of women's suffrage in the 1917 Russian Revolution → passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution → |
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Alice Paul
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Carrie Chapman Catt → Christabel Pankhurst → Clara Zetkin → Elizabeth Cady Stanton → Emmeline Pankhurst → Ida B. Wells → Kate Sheppard → Lucy Stone → Millicent Fawcett → Sojourner Truth → Susan B. Anthony → Sylvia Pankhurst → |
| hasKeyOrganization |
International Woman Suffrage Alliance
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National American Woman Suffrage Association → National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies → National Woman's Party → Woman Suffrage Association of New Zealand → Women's Social and Political Union → |
| hasMainGoal |
expansion of women's political participation
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legal equality in suffrage laws → women's right to vote → |
| hasMethod |
civil disobedience
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hunger strikes → legal challenges → lobbying legislators → petitions → public demonstrations → |
| hasOppositionFrom |
anti-suffrage organizations
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conservative political groups → some religious institutions → |
| hasOutcome |
extension of voting rights to women in many countries
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increased female representation in politics → legal recognition of women's political citizenship → |
| influenced |
civil rights movements
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later feminist movements → |
| isPartOf |
history of democracy
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history of feminism → history of women's rights → |
| operatedIn |
Asia
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Australia → Europe → Latin America → New Zealand → Nordic countries → United Kingdom → United States → |
| startDate |
mid-19th century
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Referenced by (15)
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Aletta Jacobs
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Carrie Chapman Catt → Ida B. Wells → Isabella Beecher Hooker ("first-wave feminism") → Jane Addams → Lucretia Mott → National Woman's Party ("American women's suffrage movement") → Wendell Phillips ("women's rights movement") → Woman in the Nineteenth Century ("first-wave feminism") → |
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Florence Howe Hall
("American woman suffrage movement")
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Isabella Beecher Hooker ("American women's suffrage movement") → |
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Statue of Millicent Fawcett, Parliament Square
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Woman in the Nineteenth Century
("American women's suffrage movement")
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influenced |
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"Now We Can Begin" (1920 essay)
("U.S. suffrage movement")
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The Enfranchisement of Women
("women's suffrage")
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