0 someone who supports the right of people to vote in elections, especially a supporter of the right of women to vote in the early 20th century -- sufrażyst-a/ka
But whether he was embraced or critiqued, welcomed or rebuked, he was a necessary part of the public face suffragists put on.
This is particularly evident between the ' forward tendency ' anti-suffrage women and the more conservative suffragists.
Perhaps surprisingly, given the reviews just detailed, suffragist reviewers do not uniformly approve the production.
Thus sources to a fascinating account of a riot against women suffragists can only be inferred.
It provided a shared common ground that mostly avoided political affiliation, and so allowed suffragist women to collaborate with anti-suffragists.
With suffragists, many ' antis' believed that women's part in social evolution was becoming more significant, in reproductive and moral terms.
Women 'antis ' also showed an enthusiastic participation in war work though, in contrast to the suffragists, they failed to capitalize on this in propaganda terms.
Thompson found that opportunities existed there for promoting co-operation between repealers and suffragists.