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The anti-suffrage movement was a counter movement opposing the social movement of women's suffrage in various countries. [2] It could also be considered a counterpublic that espoused a democratic defense of the status quo for women and men in society.
Carrie Chapman Catt (1859–1947) – president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, founder of the League of Women Voters and the International Alliance of Women, campaigned for the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. [33] Emily Thornton Charles (1845–1895) – poet, journalist, suffragist, newspaper ...
The National American Woman Suffrage Association, not the National Woman's Party, was decisive in Wilson's conversion to the cause of the federal amendment because its approach mirrored his own conservative vision of the appropriate method of reform: win a broad consensus, develop a legitimate rationale, and make the issue politically valuable.
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The feminist movement has affected change in Western society, including women's suffrage; greater access to education; more equitable pay with men; the right to initiate divorce proceedings; the right of women to make individual decisions regarding pregnancy (including access to contraceptives and abortion); and the right to own property.
Ida Husted Harper (1851–1931) – organizer, major writer and historian of the US suffrage movement. [5] Mary Garrett Hay (1857–1928) – suffrage organizer around the United States. [6] Mary A. McCurdy (1852–1934) – African American suffragist. [7] Zeola Hershey Misener (1878–1966) – Indiana suffragist and politician. [8]
Susan B. Anthony was a leader of the American women's suffrage movement whose position on abortion has been the subject of a modern-day dispute. The dispute has primarily been between anti-abortion activists , who say that Anthony expressed opposition to abortion, and acknowledged authorities in her life and work who say that she did not.
Hispanic and Latino American suffragists (1 C, 4 P) Native American suffragists (10 P) American suffragists of Chinese descent (4 P)-