suffragette movement
Women's ballot campaign
The suffragette movement was the campaign for women's voting rights, particularly the militant British movement of the early twentieth century.
Suffragettes distinguished themselves from earlier suffragists by their willingness to use confrontational tactics—hunger strikes, property destruction, public disruption.
The movement achieved its central goal when women won the vote in Britain (1918) and the United States (1920).
- right to voteLegal power to elect
- votes for womenFemale electoral participation rights
- hunger strikesPolitical refusal of food
- feminismAdvocacy for sex equality
- abolitionismMovement to end oppression
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- women's groupssorority, sisterhood, nuns, women's club, women's league
- women's rightswomen's rights, gender equality, feminism, women's vote, suffragettes
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suffragette movementvoter suppression
Tactics discouraging ballot access
suffragette movementacquiescence
Unresisting acceptance
complacency · apathy · conformism · submissiveness · inaction
suffragette movementpatriarchy
Male-dominated social order
anti-feminism · coverture · male supremacy · antifeminism · male chauvinism