Ideas of the Women's Suffrage Movement

The culture of the United States during the women's 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 "�was made man's helper, was given a servient place and man the dominant in the vision of labor" (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

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