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Women's suffrage is the right of women to vote and to run for office. The expression is also used for the economic and political reform movement aimed at extending these rights to women and without any restrictions or qualifications such as property ownership, payment of tax, or marital status.
Support[edit]
Australia[edit]
- Women and the State (c. 1900) by Annie Osborn
New Zealand[edit]
- Outlines of the women's franchise movement in New Zealand (1905) by William Sidney Smith
- Electoral Act, 1893 (transcription project), the first electoral law allowing women participating in elections.
United Kingdom[edit]
- Enfranchisement of women (1851) by Harriet Taylor Mill
- Electoral Disabilities of Women (1872) by Millicent Garrett Fawcett
- On the Political Status of Women (1874) by Annie Besant
- The Enfranchisement of Women: the law of the land (1879) by Sidney Smith
- Women and Representative Government (1883) by Millicent Garrett Fawcett
- The Citizenship of Women: A Plea for Woman's Suffrage, 1905 speech by Kier Hardie
- Women's suffrage: a short history of a great movement (1911) by Millicent Garrett Fawcett
- Woman suffrage: a reply (1874) by John Elliott Cairnes
- The Feminist Movement (1912) by Ethel Snowden
United States[edit]
- A Petition For Universal Suffrage, 1865
- The Nonsense of It, Anonymous, 1866
- Uncivil Liberty: an essay to show the injustice and impolicy of ruling woman against her consent, by Ezra Hervey Heywood, 1871
- Susan B. Anthony petition for remission of fine, 1874 by Susan B. Anthony
- Appeal for a Sixteenth Amendment, 1876 by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Matilda Joslyn Gage and Susan B. Anthony
- History of Woman Suffrage 1887-1922 in 6 Volumes
- Objections to Woman Suffrage Answered, 1896 by Henry B. Blackwell
- What Women might do with the ballot: The Abolition of the White Slave Traffic, 1911 by Clifford G. Roe
- Are Women People? A Book of Rhymes for Suffrage Times, 1915 by Alice Duer Miller
- Petition from Minnie Fisher Cunningham of the Texas Woman Suffrage Association, 1916 by Minnie Fisher Cunningham
- Petition from Carrie Chapman Catt of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, 1917 by Carrie Chapman Catt
- Women are people!, 1917 by Alice Duer Miller
Opposition[edit]
- Memorial from Alice Wadsworth of the National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage, 1917 by Alice Wadsworth
- The Unexpurgated Case Against Woman Suffrage (1913) by Almroth Wright
- Female suffrage (1875) by Goldwin Smith
- Letters to a friend on votes for women (1909) by Albert Venn Dicey
Women's political activism[edit]
Abolitionism in the United States[edit]
- Address of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society, 1836 by the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society
- To the Women of the Republic, 1864 letter by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- Letter from Sereno E. Payne, Chairman of the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, 1898 letter by Sereno E. Payne
Industrial conditions in the United States[edit]
- Petition from the State Federation of Pennsylvania Women for an investigation into the industrial conditions of women, 1906 by the State Federation of Pennsylvania Women
- Petition from the Michigan State Federation of Women's Clubs recommending a study of child labor, 1906 by the Michigan State Federation of Women's Clubs