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The Belgian Women’s Suffrage (1831-1948)

  • Korean Review of French History
  • Abbr : KRFH
  • 2006, (15), pp.91~113
  • Publisher : KOREAN SOCIETY FOR FRENCH HISTORY
  • Research Area : Humanities > History

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ABSTRACT

After the Belgian independance in 1830, the Belgians had to fight till 1919 for universal suffrage. The women’s suffrage was more difficult to obtain, because it outstripped the political problem and touched the ‘natural order’ which confined the women in private sphere. The women’s suffrage required a fundamental change of mentality, so it took more than one century to obtain. This article aims to show the process of Belgian women’s being granted suffrage. In the Belgian Constitution of 1831, the issue of the women’s suffrage was not discussed. When the belgian feminists began to request their rights at the end of the 19th century, they were more preoccupied with the private and the labor right than the political one. To grant Belgian women suffrage, ‘the compromise’ between the political parties was more important than the women’s demand and effort. The Belgian women got the right to vote at communal level in 1920 and at provincial and national level in 1948.

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