Women’s Movement’s and Ideologies in the long 19th Century

Abstract

Individual calls for increased social, economic and political rights for women grew from the eighteenth century, with a distinct women’s movement identifiable from the mid-nineteenth century. This essay traces some of the key campaigns that fed into the broader women’s movement and outlines some of the main feminist ideologies that shaped and influenced this movement up to the point of equal enfranchisement in 1928.