On The American Woman Suffrage Movement

As an important component part of the American Feminism Movement, the woman suffrage struggle, whose contents involve a good many aspects such as politics, economy, culture, etc., has left an indelible print in the American society. Thus, studying and working over the American Woman Suffrage Movement contribute greatly to our knowing and investigating the history of the United States.The article is divided into four parts.The first chapter discusses the origin of woman' s struggle for suffrage. The fetters given to women by the religious and secular rights in the colonial period, the influence of the western thoughts of enlightenment, and the favorable social environment in the first half of the 19th century gestated the Feminism Movement and at the same time begot woman's struggle for suffrage.The second chapter deels with how woman' s suffrage was brought, and its stage develop. It was at the Convention of Senaca Fall's in 1848 that the problem of woman' s suffrage was advanced but it was not an important topic for discussion even after the Civil War. The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments of Constitution passed in 1866 and 1869 accelerated the development of the Woman Suffrage Movement. In the early 20th century, along with the revival of the Woman Suffrage Movement in the west and the subsequent participation of the United States in World Warâ… , the two lage woman suffrage organizations, by adopting two kinds of strategies, radical and traditional, finally obtained suffrage in 1920. The third Chapter probes into the triumph of woman' s struggle for suffrage and its existent problems. Got victory of the Woman Suffrage Movement , the woman has been won with equal political right of the male sex. But the road of woman' s power struggle is endless in the society of the male sex Utterance Hegemony and Thought Hegemony.The conclusion points out that, though they have formally acquired suffrage equal to men, American women have not fundamentally changed their social and economic status. The acquirement of woman suffrage is a great victory of the American Feminism Movement and an important sign that the civilization of the United States has been upgraded.