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Although the Isle of Man (a British Crown dependency) had enfranchised women who owned property to vote in parliamentary elections in 1881, New Zealand was the first self-governing country to grant all women the right to vote in 1893, when women over the age of 21 were permitted to vote in all parliamentary elections. [8]
Developing later in the 20th century were the new-feminist schools of suffrage history, influenced by the emergence of radical feminist historians, whose ideology encompassed second-wave feminism and whose construction of history was focused on subverting the marginalisation of women in the historical record. [citation needed]
1861–1865: The American Civil War.Most suffragists focus on the war effort, and suffrage activity is minimal. [3]1866: The American Equal Rights Association, working for suffrage for both women and African Americans, is formed at the initiative of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
"Woman Suffrage in South Dakota: The Final Decade". South Dakota History. 13 (3): 206– 226 – via South Dakota State Historical Society. Engerman, Stanley L.; Sokoloff, Kenneth L. (February 2005). "The Evolution of Suffrage Institutions in the New World" (PDF). Yale Workshops and Seminars. Harper, Ida Husted (1922). The History of Woman ...
[331] [332] Wendy Rouse writes, "Scholars have already begun 'queering' the history of the suffrage movement by deconstructing the dominant narrative that has focused on the stories of elite, white, upper-class suffragists.” [331] Susan Ware says, "To speak of 'queering the suffrage movement' is to identify it as a space where women felt free ...
Suffrage for educated women in 1955, [93] extended to all women in 1974. Kazakh SSR: 1924 Kenya: 1963 Kiribati: 1967 Korea, North: 1946 [94] Korea, South: 1948 (for both men & women) Suffrage for both men and women were given at same date, same year right after the first constitutional law had been announced.
Women were not explicitly banned from voting in Great Britain until the Reform Act 1832 and the Municipal Corporations Act 1835. In 1872 the fight for women's suffrage became a national movement with the formation of the National Society for Women's Suffrage and later the more influential National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS).
The National Union of Women Suffrage Societies (NUWSS), also known as the suffragists (not to be confused with the suffragettes) was an organisation founded in 1897 of women's suffrage societies around the United Kingdom. [1] [2] In 1919 it was renamed the National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship. [citation needed]