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A suffragette was a member of an activist women's organisation in the early 20th century who, under the banner "Votes for Women", fought for the right to vote in ...
Women's suffrage is the right of women to vote in elections. Several instances occurred in recent centuries where women were selectively given, then stripped of, the ...
This list of suffragists and suffragettes includes noted individuals active in the worldwide women's suffrage movement who have campaigned or strongly advocated for women's suffrage, the organisations which they formed or joined, and the publications which publicized – and, in some nations, continue to publicize– their goals.
The Masculinist school is so-titled by Suffragette historian Sandra Stanley Holton because it is a male-constructed addition to the historiography of Suffragettes, depicting them as a women's political movement that was, by its existence, an aberration from traditional male politics which would have by itself overseen the granting of female ...
Kentucky passed the first statewide woman suffrage law in the antebellum era (since New Jersey revoked their woman suffrage rights in 1807) in 1838 – allowing voting by any widow or feme sole (legally, the head of household) over 21 who resided in and owned property subject to taxation for the new county's "common school" system. [22]
Louise Eates (1877–1944) – suffragette, chair of Kensington Women's Social and Political Union and a women's education activist; Maude Edwards (fl. 1914) – suffragette who was force-fed in prison despite having a heart condition; Norah Elam (1878–1961) – prominent member of the WSPU; imprisoned three times
Margaret Foley in a balloon, distributing women's suffrage literature in Lawrence, Massachusetts in 1910. Janet Ayer Fairbank (1878–1951) – author and champion of progressive causes. [52] [53] Lillian Feickert (1877–1945) – suffragette; first woman from New Jersey to run for United States Senate [54]
Suffragettes in Great Britain and Ireland orchestrated a bombing and arson campaign between the years 1912 and 1914. The campaign was instigated by the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), and was a part of their wider campaign for women's suffrage.