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== Anna Garlin Spencer, 1898, response to anti-suffrage attacks == | == Anna Garlin Spencer, 1898, response to anti-suffrage attacks == | ||
| − | + | Spencer's reasoning for why women should have the right to vote was unique. She claimed that once the government began to get involved in matters dealing with "any form of educative, charitable or personally helpful work, it entered the area of distinctive feminine training and power." Once the government entered that woman's sphere, it became involved in women's lives, which meant women had a say in what the government did, especially in that female sphere. She made it seem like women had the right to be involved because of the government's entrance into their lives. She also implied that without women's suffrage, the government could not adequately function/make beneficial decisions in the woman's sphere of influence. --- Alex Mankarios | |
== Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 20th Century feminist, 1903, The Home == | == Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 20th Century feminist, 1903, The Home == | ||
In Charlotte Perkins Gilman's piece, the reader gets the idea that she obviously thinks there is more to women than being housewives and mothers. She argues that women should be able to participate in society and not be stuck at home. The idea of a "home-husband" was a funny concept. She said, and I agree, "Never was any such idiot on earth as this hypothetical home-husband. It was not in him to stay in such primitive restrictions. But he has been quite willing to leave his wife in that interestingly remote period." Men are so adamant about keeping females inside the home but having the roles be reversed would be out of the question. -Amy Van Ness | In Charlotte Perkins Gilman's piece, the reader gets the idea that she obviously thinks there is more to women than being housewives and mothers. She argues that women should be able to participate in society and not be stuck at home. The idea of a "home-husband" was a funny concept. She said, and I agree, "Never was any such idiot on earth as this hypothetical home-husband. It was not in him to stay in such primitive restrictions. But he has been quite willing to leave his wife in that interestingly remote period." Men are so adamant about keeping females inside the home but having the roles be reversed would be out of the question. -Amy Van Ness | ||
