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However, all are based more on prejudice than serious analysis.
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This notion, which predates not only the actual enfranchisement of women but even the heyday of the woman-suffrage movement itself, 1 has left, right, and even feminist versions. One factor that has discouraged scholarship, Ellen Carol DuBois Woman Suffrage and the Left: An International Socialist-Feminist Perspective 20 especially from a left perspective, is the assumption that the enfranchise-ment of women has been, on balance, a conservative development. This is especially true in the Third World, where enfranchisement, measured by numbers of countries in which women vote, has actually been accelerating since the 1940s. Notwithstanding the subject's richness, much of the history remains to be explored. As such, it resembles nothing so much as international socialism. Whereas manhood suffrage, for instance, or the breaking of the political colour bar, have occurred more erratically, with limited links between national experiences, woman suffrage has been a self-consciously transnational popular political movement. Indeed, extending over more than a century and including most nations of the globe, the cause of woman suffrage has been one of the great democratic forces in human history. Despite casual remarks about various governments 'granting' women the vote, enfranchisement in the overwhelming number of cases was preceded by a women's movement demanding it. It is difficult to imagine a richer subject for a comparative history of democracy than the enfranchisement of women.