Organizations, Movements, and Events
On this site you find entries on important organizations and movements that influenced modern European women’s history
The organizations and movements were selected by the students. We cover the period from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century and mainly focus on organizations and movement from Britain, France and Germany. The entries are organized chronologically by the three centuries and the year the organization was founded or the movement started.
Eighteenth Century (1760-1815)
Society of Revolutionary Republican Women (Société des républicaines révolutionnaires) (1793)
Nineteenth Century (1815-1914)
General German Women’s Association (Allgemeiner Deutscher Frauenverein, ADF) (1865-2018)
Women’s Suffrage Society (Société le suffrage des femmes) (1876-1909)
Women’s Franchise League (1889-1903)
Social Democratic Women’s Movement in Germany (1891-1914)
Federation of German Women’s Associations (Bund Deutscher Frauenvereine) (1894-1933)
National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) (1897-1928)
Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) (1903-1917)
French Union for Women’s Suffrage (Union Française Pour Le Suffrage Des Femmes, UFSF) (1909-1940)
International Women’s Day (1909-2018)
National Women’s Service (Nationaler Frauendienst) (1914-1918)