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Summary Of Against Women Voting By Jane Addams

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By the time Jane Addams had taken her role as a prominent social reformer and women’s rights activist, some groups had already spent half a century trying to fight for equal woman’s rights. The battle for women’s rights would be a multigenerational one, with its beginnings set in 1848, at the first Woman’s Rights Convention in Seneca Falls. As stated in Elizabeth Stanton’s Declaration of Sentiments, “He has never permitted her to exercise her inalienable right to the elective franchise.” This is what the women’s suffrage movement would continue to argue, and slowly but surely, it would make increasing headway and headlines across the nation. Ultimately, equal women’s rights were achieved by the changing of public opinion and the combined efforts …show more content…

In Against Women Voting, Grace Duffield Goodwin rejects the movement for equal voting rights and lays out arguments shared by public sentiment. Throughout the piece, Goodwin makes points that the movement, “though deeply interesting, is not supremely urgent” and that “the ballot is not a right denied; it is a burden removed.” Above all, she emphasizes that “sex is the dominant factor in this problem”…according to her, the right to vote belonged to men, and the burden of the household rested on women. Addams argued that “as society grows more complicated it is necessary that women [extend] her sense of responsibility to many things outside of her own home.” Public affairs made impacts on many facets of the American household, on the quality of produce, the cleanliness of tenement houses…Addams revealed that the woman can no longer care for the house alone: “if woman would fulfill her traditional responsibility to her own children…then she must bring herself to the use of the ballot.” In her essay, Addams, although she a progressive activist, attempted to develop and “evolve” gender roles rather than refute and attack them. Using these kinds of strategies, Addams and other suffragists could slowly transform popular opinion and deliver their message to society without

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