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Legerski, Elizabeth. and Cornwall, Marie. "The Effects of Social Movement Strategies: Full and Partial Suffrage Legislative Success" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Atlanta Hilton Hotel, Atlanta, GA, Aug 16, 2003 <Not Available>. 2009-05-26 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p106974_index.html>

Legerski, E. M. and Cornwall, M. , 2003-08-16 "The Effects of Social Movement Strategies: Full and Partial Suffrage Legislative Success" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Atlanta Hilton Hotel, Atlanta, GA Online <.PDF>. 2009-05-26 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p106974_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: Social movement strategies may significantly impact goal attainment and movement organizations typically implement different strategies to attain their goals. The United States Woman Suffrage movement was one such movement that employed various movement strategies in order to attain full voting rights for women. Although some movement activists felt that experimenting with partial suffrage would ease the fears of the electorate, making full suffrage more acceptable over time, other suffragists argued that partial suffrage activities would detract from the primary goal of helping women achieve equal voting rights with men. Using bill and legislative data collected from primary sources in each of the 48 contiguous states, we explore whether 1) partial suffrage legislation competed with full suffrage legislation therefore reducing full suffrage legislative success, or 2) partial suffrage facilitated the passage of full suffrage by legitimizing the idea of woman suffrage. Resource mobilization, policy legacies, and diffusion processes are considered in the analysis. Variations in full and partial suffrage passage suggest that partial suffrage legislation did not have the legitimating effects within states that many suffragists who encouraged the use of partial suffrage hoped it would have. The results do support the idea that woman suffrage success was the result of a gradual process of social change, in which women�s political participation gained greater legitimacy as more states granted full women suffrage and experienced positive results.

Expansion of Voting Rights for Women in the United States: Gender and Social Movement Activism within Institutional Contexts

Social Movements and Political Success: Civil Rights Outcomes in Public School Desegregation and Voting Rights