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.


Statements (63)
Predicate Object
instanceOf feminist movement
political movement
social movement
endDate 20th century
hasIdeology egalitarianism
feminism
liberalism
hasKeyEvent Finnish parliamentary reform of 1906
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
hasKeyFigure Alice Paul
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
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
legal equality in suffrage laws
women's right to vote
hasMethod civil disobedience
hunger strikes
legal challenges
lobbying legislators
petitions
public demonstrations
hasOppositionFrom anti-suffrage organizations
conservative political groups
some religious institutions
hasOutcome extension of voting rights to women in many countries
increased female representation in politics
legal recognition of women's political citizenship
influenced civil rights movements
later feminist movements
isPartOf history of democracy
history of feminism
history of women's rights
operatedIn Asia
Australia
Europe
Latin America
New Zealand
Nordic countries
United Kingdom
United States
startDate mid-19th century

Referenced by (15)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Aletta Jacobs
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")
movement
Florence Howe Hall ("American woman suffrage movement")
Isabella Beecher Hooker ("American women's suffrage movement")
participantIn
Statue of Millicent Fawcett, Parliament Square
dedicatedTo
Woman in the Nineteenth Century ("American women's suffrage movement")
influenced
"Now We Can Begin" (1920 essay) ("U.S. suffrage movement")
influencedBy
The Enfranchisement of Women ("women's suffrage")
mainSubject

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