Sumário:The theoretical framing : transition to modernity and formale citizenship -- Political actors in the struggle : between strategy and principle -- Women's fight for female suffrage : suffragism and the challenge of speaking with a single voice -- The power of ideology : women's enfranchisement, motherhood and sexual contract -- The achievement of female suffrage : triggering factors, synergies, and paradigms -- Women's gradual achievement of citizenship : unsettling T.H. Marshall -- From the franchise to parity democracy : a change of paradigm?