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 [log in to unmask]