Anti-Suffragettes Movement... Women Led!

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Anti-suffragism - Wikipedia

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Anti-suffragism was a political movement composed of both men and women that began in the late 19th century in order to campaign against women's suffrage in countries such as Australia, Canada, Ireland, the United Kingdom and the United States. To some extent, Anti-suffragism was a Classical Conservative movement that sought to keep the status quo for women. More American women organized against their own right to vote than in favor of it, until 1916.[1] Anti-suffragism was associated with "domestic feminism," the belief that women had the right to complete freedom within the home. In the United States, these activists were often referred to as "remonstrants" or "antis."

With All Due Respect: Understanding Anti-Suffrage Women | Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

With All Due Respect: Understanding Anti-Suffrage Women | Although it may be hard to believe today, not everyone wanted women to have the right to vote. In fact, during the early nineteenth century, very few people thought women capable of political engagement of any kind. As the century...

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@jgoodguy Alabama gal...

 

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She has relatives all around her. My professor at RIT, Dr Ronald Frances, was the head of Technicolor at MIT. He over saw the making of Gone With the Wind and OZ. He was really into photo chemistry. Me not so much. I was like Robert Oppenheimer in the lab.

 

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In America...

Opposition to Suffrage — History of U.S. Woman's Suffrage

Anti-suffrage views dominated among men and women through the early twentieth century. The National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage did not form until 1911.

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[jgoodguy]

Women had a rough road to getting the vote.