Download or read book Women's Suffrage in New Zealand written by Patricia Grimshaw and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive account of the New Zealand suffrage movement, Women's Suffrage in New Zealand remains the only study of how New Zealand became the first country in the world to give women the vote. It tells the fascinating story of the courage and the determination of the early New Zealand feminists led by the remarkable Kate Sheppard, whose ideas and attitudes still resonate today.