In the summer of 1908 the famous author, Mary Humphry Ward, was approached by Lord Curzon and William Cremer and asked to become the first president of the Anti-Suffrage League. Ward agreed and the first meeting took place on 12th July at the Westminster Palace Hotel.
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Anti-suffragism was a political movement composed mainly of women, begun in the late 19th century in order to campaign against women's suffrage in the United States and United Kingdom. It was closely...
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Anti-Suffrage Arguments and Activists: arguments against women's suffrage. Why women should not have the legal right to vote. Not all women supported woman suffrage, and many formed organizations or wrote or spoke for what was called anti-suffrage. ... Woman and the Republic - An Anti-Suffrage Argument; Helen Kendrick Johnson...
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A Survey of the Woman Suffrage Movement in the United States and a Discussion of the Claims and Arguments of Its Foremost Advocates ... by Helen Kendrick Johnson; A New and Enlarged Edition ; With an Index; Published by ; The Guidon Club; Opposed to Woman Suffrage; New York; 1913...
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"An anti who spoke at a hearing in Connecticut on woman suffrage observed that "The most convincing reason I have heard given was the one offered by Miss ...
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More strongly the anti's conception of women's emotional composition aggravated their fears about women's suffrage. Whereas men were described as rational and emotionally stable, women were portrayed as "high strung," tense, irritable, and potentially irrational.
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The Anti-Suffrage League was an organization that was opposed to women's suffrage. It was founded in 1908 by the writer Mary Ward, at the behest of Lord Curzon and William Cremer. The first meeting ...
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Petition to U.S. Senate; Women Voters Anti-Suffrage Party of New York World War I, ca. 1917 ... There was still strong opposition to enfranchising women, however, as illustrated by this petition from the Women Voters Anti-Suffrage Party of New York at the beginning of U.S. involvement in World War I.
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Oklahoma women, calling themselves antisuffragists or "antis," organized in opposition to women's suffrage in 1918 and established the Oklahoma Anti-Suffrage Association, also known as the Oklahoma Anti-Suffrage League or the Oklahoma Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage.
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