Women's movement timeline

• 1791 In Lower Canada, the Constitutional Act makes no distinction for the voter's sex; some women interprete this as an authorization to vote in subsequent elections.
• 1792 Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
• 1848 Seneca Falls
• 1849 La Fontaine-Baldwin formally prohibit women from voting in Canada.
• 1850 first National Women's Rights Convention in US
• 1869 National Women Suffrage Association (Susan B. Anthony & Elizabeth Cady Stanton); American Woman Suffrage Association (Lucy Stone, Henry Blackwell, etc.)
• 1890 (NWSA & AWSA merge to NAWSA)
• 1896 National Association of Colored Women formed
• 1903 National Women's Trade Union League formed
• 1947-48 - Lisa Ben (Edith Eyde) published Vice Versa (first lesbian publication)
• 1974 Cambahee River Collective first meeting
• 1982 Barnard Conference
• 1984 This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color ed. by Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaluda