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'''I found it appalling how Alice Paul was immediately suspected of mental illness after embarking on her hunger strike.''' The jail warden and psychologists were obviously looking for any reason to have her committed. The most convenient excuse was an 'obsession' with President Wilson, who Paul mentioned only in reference to her beliefs about gaining suffrage. As Alice W stated, the only way authorities could control these powerful women was through lies. This proves how frightened and intimidated many men were of suffragists. They would use any means to control women, even forging insanity. -Anna Holman | '''I found it appalling how Alice Paul was immediately suspected of mental illness after embarking on her hunger strike.''' The jail warden and psychologists were obviously looking for any reason to have her committed. The most convenient excuse was an 'obsession' with President Wilson, who Paul mentioned only in reference to her beliefs about gaining suffrage. As Alice W stated, the only way authorities could control these powerful women was through lies. This proves how frightened and intimidated many men were of suffragists. They would use any means to control women, even forging insanity. -Anna Holman | ||
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| + | Right of the bat this article caught my attention with the seeming contradiction of the “militant suffragists led by the charismatic Quaker leader Alice Paul” (111) and the harshness of the sentence Paul and her followers received. I cannot help but wonder if these women received such a severe sentence because of their radical behavior and how horribly inappropriate and alarming this behavior was on women. --kokeefe | ||
==Open-Air Meetings: A New Suffrage Tactic, Florence Luscomb== | ==Open-Air Meetings: A New Suffrage Tactic, Florence Luscomb== | ||
