Swimming suffragists

Swimming suffragists (or swimming suffragettes) was the name for women who opposed the social norms that enforced restrictions on both what a woman could wear for public swimming as well as a woman's right to vote. They were active in the 1910s and 1920s across both America and England, culminating in a greater ability of women to wear bathing suits in public and achieving the right to vote with the passing of the Nineteenth Amendment in the United States and reforms passed in the United Kingdom in both 1918 and 1928.

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Swimming suffragists

Swimming suffragists (or swimming suffragettes) was the name for women who opposed the social norms that enforced restrictions on both what a woman could wear for public swimming as well as a woman's right to vote. They were active in the 1910s and 1920s across both America and England, culminating in a greater ability of women to wear bathing suits in public and achieving the right to vote with the passing of the Nineteenth Amendment in the United States and reforms passed in the United Kingdom in both 1918 and 1928.

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