antisuffragist
Against women voting
An antisuffragist opposed extending voting rights to women, particularly during the suffrage movements of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
The term applied to both men and women who campaigned against women's suffrage: The antisuffragists argued that politics would corrupt feminine virtue.
Also used as an adjective: antisuffragist pamphlets.
Adherence to inherited customs
- patriarchyMale-dominated social order
- domesticityLife centered around home
- gender rolesExpected behaviors by sex
- conservatismPreference for existing institutions
paternalism · chauvinism · status quo · conformity · subordination · male dominance · Victorian values · natural order
Active resistance or dissent
- propagandaBiased information for influence
- pamphletsThin informational booklets
- lobbyingAdvocating to decision-makers
- campaignsOrganized efforts toward goals
petitions · rallies · leaflets · speeches · oratory · demonstrations · resistance · activists
Removal of voting rights
- votingFormally registering a choice
- ballotVoting document
- franchiseLicensed business operation
- legislatureLawmaking governmental branch
parliament · senate · legislation · petition · referendum · amendment · states' rights · poll
Of a prim era
- EdwardianOf early twentieth-century Britain
- Progressive EraUS social reform period
- nineteenth centuryYears 1801-1900
- Gilded AgeLate 1800s American prosperity
temperance · women's movement · reform · 1918 · 1920 · ratification · Seneca Falls · militancy
traditionalism
Adherence to inherited customs
- patriarchyMale-dominated social order
- domesticityLife centered around home
- gender rolesExpected behaviors by sex
conservatism · paternalism · chauvinism · status quo · conformity · subordination · male dominance · Victorian values · natural order · family values
opposition
Active resistance or dissent
- propagandaBiased information for influence
- pamphletsThin informational booklets
- lobbyingAdvocating to decision-makers
campaigns · petitions · rallies · leaflets · speeches · oratory · demonstrations · resistance · activists · remonstrance
disenfranchisement
Removal of voting rights
legislature · parliament · senate · legislation · petition · referendum · amendment · states' rights · poll · election
Victorian
Of a prim era
- EdwardianOf early twentieth-century Britain
- Progressive EraUS social reform period
- nineteenth centuryYears 1801-1900
Gilded Age · temperance · women's movement · reform · 1918 · 1920 · ratification · Seneca Falls · militancy
Queen Victoria
Long-reigning British empress
antisuffragistsuffragist
Voting rights advocate
suffragette · Susan B. Anthony · Elizabeth Cady Stanton · feminist
antisuffragistfeminist
Gender equality proponent
women's rights advocate · social reformer · egalitarian · abolitionist · civil rights advocate