Women's Suffrage Movement

Japanese: 婦人参政権運動 - ふじんさんせいけんうんどう
Women's Suffrage Movement
A movement aimed at gaining political rights for women.
[Overview]
Women did not only gain political rights in the 20th century. In France, some women of the aristocracy and high-ranking nuns had the right to vote since the opening of the Three Estates General in 1302, and these women exercised that right when the Three Estates General was convened for the first time in 175 years just before the French Revolution. It was during the French Revolution that women lost the right to vote because they were women. The same was true in England, where women of the privileged classes had exercised the right to vote from the Middle Ages until the 17th century.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:
女性の政治的権利獲得をめざす運動。
[概観]
 女性は20世紀になってはじめて政治的権利を獲得したのではない。フランスでは,三部会が開設された1302年以来,貴族階級の一部の女性や高位の尼僧は選挙権をもっていたのであり,フランス革命の直前,175年ぶりに三部会が召集されたときも,このような女性たちはその権利を行使した。女性が女性であるという理由で選挙権を失ったのは,フランス革命のときであった。イギリスでも同様で,中世以来17世紀に至るまで,特権階級の女性は選挙権を行使していた。

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