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I thought "Suffrage Militant Alice Paul Goes to Jail" was particularily interesting by showing the reaction to radical female behavior. By being merely showing an active, aggressive tactic Alice Paul was labeled as manic and psychopathic by the standards of the day. This extreme blindness in the doctors ability to understand Paul's actions reminded me of the categorization of homosexuality as a psychological disorder until the early 1970s. The thought of women's rights was so foreign to some men such as Doctor White makes the progress women did make in this era seem exponential. -- Meredith Bojarski | I thought "Suffrage Militant Alice Paul Goes to Jail" was particularily interesting by showing the reaction to radical female behavior. By being merely showing an active, aggressive tactic Alice Paul was labeled as manic and psychopathic by the standards of the day. This extreme blindness in the doctors ability to understand Paul's actions reminded me of the categorization of homosexuality as a psychological disorder until the early 1970s. The thought of women's rights was so foreign to some men such as Doctor White makes the progress women did make in this era seem exponential. -- Meredith Bojarski | ||
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| + | Like Jessica, I really enjoyed Duniway's speech. She really brings up an interesting point about men illogically mistrusting women with the right to vote. Going back to all that we have been studying with the cult of domesticity and such an applying it to the ideas of this speech, women are ultimately good and sincere. Men trust the future of the nation, their children, in their hands. Why then do men deny women the right to vote? --Kendall Haring | ||
