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Women's Suffrage Movements

The culture of the United States during the womenÆs suffrage movement from 1890-1920 was still one dominated by Victorian values. Biologically, socially, and economically, women were relegated to the status of second-class citizens in comparison to men. In The Ideas of the Woman Suffrage Movement, Aileen Kraditor tells that one anti-suffragist Florida Congressman openly stated that woman ôàwas made manÆs helper, was given a servient place and man the dominant in the vision of laborö (14). Among middle-class women, the full-time roles of housewife and mother were the only two available for or deemed fitting for women. Despite this mentality and the rigid roles assigned to women due gender, a handful of women mobilized the suffrage movement that would result in women being permitted the vote via the 19th Amendment in 1920.

Women in the late 19th and early 20th century were denied a number of rights by male-dominated society. Women were often denied these rights through two methods. One method was to use ideas of biology to prove women the weaker sex when compared to men. Another method was to erect institutions whose values perpetuated and maintained the idea that women were inferior to men and suited for only certain roles in society and the home. KraditorÆs book provides the ideas, tactics, and methods of a handful of suffragist leaders who fought the ideas and institutions that prevented equality for women. Kraditor maintains that as early as 1848, suffragists drafted a ôDeclaration of Sentimentsö that protested the alleged inferiority of women. Women attacked the cause through a state-by-state manner. By the late 1880s, the question to give women the vote existed on nine different state ballots. Still, it would take until the mid-1890s to get even two states to pass the referendum. Opposition to giving women the vote was staunch. There were those who opposed them because they w

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