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I might offer a casually speculative response to what the
justification might be for women to be contra
suffragetism. If we assume for the moment that suffragetism
means equality of responsibility between men and women, then
I think that there is analysis that could be described
where, economically, it made more sense for the women to be
responsible for the domestic front, and the men be more
responsible for the economic activity in a newly
industrialized and specialized society.
Of course, the point is that there is nothing shabby about
being responsible for raising children and keeping the
household in order, when it is contrasted with some brutal
industrial job.
It is a relatively easy intellectual jump from that point of
view to the point of view that men are responsible for
decisions on the economic/political front, and women are
responsible for decisions on the domestic front. I think its
a distortion, don't get me wrong, but I don't have a real
hard time imagining arguments for this kind of arrangement.
Again, this has no basis in any historical reality that I am
educated about, it's just my own personal reaction to the
question. My other personal reaction is that I hope you get
some good documentary sources, so you can learn what people
then expressed.
Eric Siegel
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