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In many ways, the women’s rights movement was elitist. Wealthy women who had the leisure time to campaign for suffrage often asserted that they should vote to help counteract the votes of the working class. Working class women were less likely to participate in the women’s rights movement, therefore I thought Ella A. Little’s letter was pretty awesome. Her argument was that wealthy women did not really understand oppression and that working class women who had to “battle” to “earn their livelihood” were in more desperate need for the right to vote. I think it is really sad that this opinion is not often heard in the women’s rights movement. -Allison Luthern | In many ways, the women’s rights movement was elitist. Wealthy women who had the leisure time to campaign for suffrage often asserted that they should vote to help counteract the votes of the working class. Working class women were less likely to participate in the women’s rights movement, therefore I thought Ella A. Little’s letter was pretty awesome. Her argument was that wealthy women did not really understand oppression and that working class women who had to “battle” to “earn their livelihood” were in more desperate need for the right to vote. I think it is really sad that this opinion is not often heard in the women’s rights movement. -Allison Luthern | ||
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| + | “Americus” was some character. “Americus” described chewing tobacco and spitting it on the floor as a right. Snoring was also described as a right, because, I suppose, it was more acceptable for men to snore. I thought it interesting that they compared the fact of being a woman to the idea of slavery when as the NWSA they were not fighting for the right of African Amerian’s suffrage, they were first focused on the right for women to vote. It amused me that apparently as soon as women gained the right to vote that as a whole they’d be less timid and not afraid of “burglars nights” as well as chew and spit tobacco and snore (the latter two mentioned before). –Megan Mc. | ||
== Amelia Barr, (novelist and married) 1896, Speaks out against female suffrage == | == Amelia Barr, (novelist and married) 1896, Speaks out against female suffrage == | ||
