The divergent aims of the struggle for women’s suffrage in Spain (1918–1924) (original) (raw)

This article seeks to explain why groups of women working for women’s suffrage in Spain from 1918 to 1924 failed to agree on a unified strategy. It focuses on three of the most important groups working for the right of women to vote in Spain: the Women’s Socialist Group, the Catholic Workers’ Trade Union of the Immaculate Conception and the Crusade of Spanish Women, a suffragist group. All three groups were united by the development of strategies which contested male-dominated discourses and spaces in the public sphere, but were ultimately divided by their aims. Their ideological incompatibilities explain why these groups were unable to agree on a common strategy and why the campaign in support of the vote for women failed.