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I thought "Open Air Suffrage" was interesting. Though not a novel idea, bringing together many people for one cause out in public is a great way to get people to notice. Yet I think I agree with Rose when seh points out that it seems like these meetings weren't all that serious but more like a friendly gathering. --Kendall Haring | I thought "Open Air Suffrage" was interesting. Though not a novel idea, bringing together many people for one cause out in public is a great way to get people to notice. Yet I think I agree with Rose when seh points out that it seems like these meetings weren't all that serious but more like a friendly gathering. --Kendall Haring | ||
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| + | It's interesting how women are said to have "feminized" politics in the Gustafson essay. The New York Times thought the effect of women on politics was apparently to introduce decorum, manners, and non-smoking. This seems connected to other instances in which feminists of the time embrace arguments that today we might consider anti-feminist, for example, women arguing they can moralize politics because women are inherently more moral. ~ Matt Struth | ||
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| + | Elizabeth asks about "Inez Haynes Irwin Recalls the Militance of Suffragists in the National Woman's Party, 1921" whether the president thought he could prevent protest by meeting with the women's delegations. It seems like it was probably a much better option for Wilson than ignoring the groups, which might have further inflamed them; however, I'd be interested to know how much it would have cost Wilson politically to make a concession to the delegations on when or how he would force a vote, and whether or not their resort to "militant" tactics hurt him worse than an early concession would have. ~ Matt Struth | ||
