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I wonder if men felt women had this much power over their vote? I doubt it because women were not given the vote because men thought women could not think for themselves. This document shows that some women, actually, think men cannot think for themselves when voting. -- Michelle M. | I wonder if men felt women had this much power over their vote? I doubt it because women were not given the vote because men thought women could not think for themselves. This document shows that some women, actually, think men cannot think for themselves when voting. -- Michelle M. | ||
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| + | This just made me think about all the times I've disagreed with my parents about politics. I don't vote the same way they do, even though I appreciate the way they raised me, and I'm not doing it to be spiteful. Hale doesn't seem to consider the idea that some people's sons, even if not hers, aren't going to agree with their parents. --Rebecca W. | ||
== Julie Roy Jeffrey, “Ordinary Women in the Antislavery Movement,” in the Introduction to The Great Silent Army of Abolitionism: Ordinary Women in the Anti-slavery Movement, 1998. == | == Julie Roy Jeffrey, “Ordinary Women in the Antislavery Movement,” in the Introduction to The Great Silent Army of Abolitionism: Ordinary Women in the Anti-slavery Movement, 1998. == | ||
