suffragism

IPA: sˈʌfrʌdʒɪzʌm

(historical) A political movement in the late 19th century that fought for women's right to vote in Great Britain and the United States.

Examples of "suffragism" in Sentences

It is feminism, rather than suffragism, which is dangerous.
Looking back she stressed that she never had a special interest in “suffragism.”
Miss Jenkins had reached the certain -- or uncertain -- age when women take to militant suffragism.
She believed in militant suffragism and unions and boycotts and strikes; and she labored hard to bring her little charges to her own advanced position.
We must take note of the fact that suffragism is gaining in strength every day and is becoming a general movement in the countries where it has found acceptance.
Susan B. Anthony's writings/speeches on suffragism would be part of feminist theory (but are not the kind of feminist literary analysis that so many people have such a violent dislike/distrust of).
But Vera, you know, in spite of her suffragism and her feminism has always been kept by her father from having anything to do, and so she had nothing to occupy herself with just when she needed occupation most.
And is it not just as stupid and even senseless to oppose suffragism on speculative or rather hypothetical grounds, instead of being guided by the experience of other countries in this respect and accepting suffragism as part and parcel of our modern customs and institutions?