Abstract
This chapter discusses women’s fight for rights in France, Britain, the US, Australia and New Zealand, emphasising that they were more difficult to win than working men’s rights because women were excluded on the ground that they were not human in the same way as men. They therefore did not need the same rights. Already, early revolutionary France had debated whether women are essentially different from men; that is, the discussion of human rights had shifted from their contents to the question: who is human and therefore has those human rights? For women, the fight to be deemed as belonging to the national citizenry was a struggle which, though it was won in some western states of the US, New Zealand and Australia late in the nineteenth century, only ended in Britain in 1928, and in France and Italy after 1945. Women fought their way to rights by establishing that they share a common humanity with men.
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