Anti-Suffrage Essays

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bernbaum, Ernest, 1879-1958

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource : multiple file formats

Place of Publication:

Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg,

Summary:

"Anti-Suffrage Essays" by Ernest Bernbaum is a collection of writings produced by prominent anti-suffrage women in Massachusetts, likely written in the early 20th century. The book encapsulates the sentiments and arguments that led to a significant anti-suffrage victory in Massachusetts during a critical period in the suffrage movement. It presents the perspectives of women who were engaged speakers and activists, arguing against the need for women to gain the right to vote. At the start of the text, Bernbaum provides an introduction outlining the anti-suffrage victory in Massachusetts and discusses the reasons behind it, such as many women's apparent indifference to voting and the belief that they were already adequately represented by men. He highlights the strong support for anti-suffrage sentiments in the state, emphasizing that the majority of women did not desire the franchise. The opening chapters set the stage for a series of essays that challenge the motivations and claims of suffragists, arguing that suffrage may lead to negative political consequences and undermine traditional roles of women as caregivers and moral guides in society. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Contents:

Introduction: the anti-suffrage victory in Massachusetts / Ernest Bernbaum

Who the Massachusetts anti-suffragists are / Mrs. John Balch

Suffrage fallacies / Mrs. A.J. George

The ballot and the woman of industry / Mrs. Henry Preston White

A business woman's view of suffrage / Edith Melvin

Some practical aspects of the question / Ellen Mudge Burrill

How Massachusetts fosters public welfare / Monica Foley

Massachusetts compared with suffrage states / Catherine Robinson

Woman suffrage and war / Mrs. Charles P. Strong

Woman suffrage vs. womanliness / Mrs. Thomas Allen

Are suffragists sincere reformers / Mrs. Augustin H. Parker

Suffrage and the school teacher / Elizabeth Jackson

Suffrage and the social worker / Dorothy Godfrey Wayman

Woman suffrage a menace to social reform / Margaret C. Robinson

The anti-suffrage ideal / Mrs. Herbert Lyman

The true function of the normal woman / Mrs. Horace A. Davis

The imperative demand upon women in the home / Mrs. Charles Burton Gulick

Suffrage and the sex problem / Mrs. William Lowell Putnam

Suffrage a step toward feminism / Lily Rice Foxcroft

Important anti-suffrage publications.

Credits:

Produced by Bryan Ness and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.)

Notes:

Reading ease score: 55.6 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read.

Release date is 2011-03-26