Suzanne Grinberg ( 25 January 1888 –5 July 1972) was a pioneering French lawyer, feminist and pacifist. She was one of the women who participated in the

Inter-Allied Women's Conference The Inter-Allied Women's Conference (also known as the Suffragist Conference of the Allied Countries and the United States) opened in Paris on 10 February 1919. It was convened parallel to the Paris Peace Conference to introduce women's issue ...

which opened in

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in February 1919. In 1920, she was vice-president of the ''Association du Jeune Barreau'' and secretary of the central committee of the

French Union for Women's Suffrage The French Union for Women's Suffrage (UFSF: ) was a French feminist organization formed in 1909 that fought for the right of women to vote, which was eventually granted in 1945. The Union took a moderate approach, advocating staged introduction o ...

. Her contemporaries in the committee include Pauline Rebour and Marcelle Kraemer-Bach. In one of her arguments for women's suffrage, she argued that, in France, women were forced to choose between love for their homelands and their love for their husbands. She later published an account of the French suffragist movement (1926) as well as two works on

women's rights Women's rights are the rights and Entitlement (fair division), entitlements claimed for women and girls worldwide. They formed the basis for the women's rights movement in the 19th century and the feminist movements during the 20th and 21st c ...

(1935 and 1936). Grinberg's works included her campaign for a favorable legal status of women in

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and that their claim to women's rights depended on the legal recognition of their liberal equality.

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French feminists Pacifist feminists Lawyers from Paris 1888 births 1972 deaths 20th-century French lawyers 20th-century French women writers 20th-century French women lawyers {{France-law-bio-stub