suffrage movement

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• Suffrage in Japan — Overview of Women’s Suffrage in Japan= Although women’s advocacy has been present in Japan since the nineteenth century, aggressive women’s suffrage in Japan was born during the turbulent interwar period of the 1920s. Enduring a societal,… …   Wikipedia

• suffrage — [[t]sʌ̱frɪʤ[/t]] N UNCOUNT Suffrage is the right of people to vote for a government or national leader. [FORMAL] He was an advocate of universal suffrage as a basis for social equality. ...the women s suffrage movement …   English dictionary

• Suffrage — (from the Latin suffragium , meaning voting tablet , and figuratively right to vote ; probably from suffrago hough , and originally a term for the pastern bone used to cast votes) is the civil right to vote, or the exercise of that right. In that …   Wikipedia

• Movement for Democratic Change — Mouvement pour le changement démocratique Le Mouvement pour le changement démocratique (en anglais : Movement for Democratic Change, MDC) est un parti politique du Zimbabwe, fondé en 1999 par Morgan Tsvangirai, secrétaire général du Congrès… …   Wikipédia en Français

• movement — /moohv meuhnt/, n. 1. the act, process, or result of moving. 2. a particular manner or style of moving. 3. Usually, movements. actions or activities, as of a person or a body of persons. 4. Mil., Naval. a change of position or location of troops… …   Universalium

• movement — noun 1 act of moving ADJECTIVE ▪ big ▪ little, slight, small, tiny ▪ The eyes of predators are highly sensitive to the slightest movement. ▪ …   Collocations dictionary

• suffrage — noun Suffrage is used before these nouns: ↑movement …   Collocations dictionary

• Women's suffrage — U.S. women suffragists demonstrating for the right to vote, February 1913 Women s suffrage or woman suffrage[1] 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… …   Wikipedia

• woman suffrage — woman suffrage, adj. woman suffragist, n. the right of women to vote; female suffrage. [1840 50] * * * Right of women by law to vote in national and local elections. Women s voting rights became an issue in the 19th century, especially in Britain …   Universalium

• Women's suffrage in the United Kingdom — Women were not formally prohibited from voting until the 1832 Reform Act and the 1835 Municipal Corporations Act. Both before and after 1832 establishing women s suffrage on some level was a political topic, although it would not be until 1872… …   Wikipedia

• National Woman Suffrage Association — The National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) was formed on May 15, 1869 in New York City.[1] The National Association was created in response to a split in the American Equal Rights Association[2] over whether the woman s movement should… …   Wikipedia