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Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony in Political Lessons take a unique and direct approach to gain women’s suffrage. '''Based off of their arguments, I can see why they may have been threatening. They argue that women, in all actuality, are quiet geniuses, unable to voice their opinions and they are frustrated.''' This goes completely against the gender roles of the time, which perceive women to be inferior people who were meant to stay home and care for her family who didn’t really have any real political opinions of her own and who followed their husband’s views. I also think that it was very bold for them to bring up topics such as class and race, and relate them to women's gender roles. I can see why this could be appealing for some and scary for others. –Erin Sanderson | Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony in Political Lessons take a unique and direct approach to gain women’s suffrage. '''Based off of their arguments, I can see why they may have been threatening. They argue that women, in all actuality, are quiet geniuses, unable to voice their opinions and they are frustrated.''' This goes completely against the gender roles of the time, which perceive women to be inferior people who were meant to stay home and care for her family who didn’t really have any real political opinions of her own and who followed their husband’s views. I also think that it was very bold for them to bring up topics such as class and race, and relate them to women's gender roles. I can see why this could be appealing for some and scary for others. –Erin Sanderson | ||
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| + | To be a white man of political position in this time, it must have been pretty intimidating to realize the eventuality of truly universal suffrage. As Stanton and Anthony point out in this, enfranchising african americans and women would more than double the voters, and those numbers would come largely from demographics whose interests weren't protected politically the same way white business-owning men's were. As Erin already said, the presence of these women even through just this passage is fairly intimidating and simultaneously inspiring. That this was written in 1882 and it took so many more years for women to be granted suffrage, and that the evolution of women's rights moved as slowly as it did is relatively surprising. The activism of Stanton and Anthony seemed very inspiring. - erin b. | ||
== Frances Ellen (Watkins) Harper, 1866 Woman’s Rights convention == | == Frances Ellen (Watkins) Harper, 1866 Woman’s Rights convention == | ||
