Why Women Opposed the Vote: Separate Spheres, Part 1
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Why Women Opposed the Vote: Separate Spheres, Part 1
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Why did so many women oppose women’s suffrage?
Before 1916, suffrage was never backed by a majority of women, and for years men were more progressive on the issue than women were.
In this episode, we enter the worldview of the American anti-suffragists and begin with their core idea: separate spheres. To them, the vote was never just a ballot. It was a sign of a much larger social change, one that threatened women’s moral authority, sex-based protections, and the family as the basic unit of society. Many of these women did not see themselves as powerless. They believed they already had influence, just not partisan influence. This episode is about what they feared, what they thought they were protecting, and why their position made sense to them at the time.
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