The enormous success of the temperance movement among native-born American women between 1874 and 1900 entwined the destiny of the suffrage movement with the temperance movement during the last ...

Women were not allowed to vote in national elections. In 1867, when Parliament was debating about whether to give working men the vote, John Stuart Mill suggested that women should also be allowed.

The seed for the first Woman's Rights Convention was planted in 1840, when Elizabeth Cady Stanton met Lucretia Mott at the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London, the conference that refused to seat ...

In the years between the Seneca Falls Convention and the Civil War, powerful links existed between antislavery and women’s rights advocates. Virtually all women’s rights advocates supported ...

A group of pregnant women are challenging Donald Trump's attempt to strip birthright citizenship citing the immediate harm that 'stateless' infants would cause ...

After generations of struggle for suffrage, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed in 1919 and ratified in August 1920. To mark the centennial anniversary of women’s suffrage in 2020, ...

In 1867 the all-male British House of Commons rejected John Stuart Mill’s amendment to the Franchise Reform Bill to allow women the vote on the same property terms as men. The dismissal of this ...

Women were not allowed to vote in national elections. In 1867, when Parliament was debating about whether to give working men the vote, John Stuart Mill suggested that women should also be allowed.

Our collections contain primary source material relating to the campaign for women’s suffrage. The majority of this collection forms part of the Women’s Library, whose roots are founded in the ...

In 1867 the all-male British House of Commons rejected John Stuart Mill’s amendment to the Franchise Reform Bill to allow women the vote on the same property terms as men. The dismissal of this ...