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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