anti-suffrage

Moving their headquarters from Manchester to London, by 1908 the suffragettes had launched an all-out war for the cause, targeting those MPs notoriously anti-suffrage like Prime Minister H.H. Asquith and Winston Churchill.

Shoulder to Shoulder | Edwardian Promenade 2010

Because of their peculiar status, many of these socially - and politically - powerful women were anti-suffrage, feeling that women did not require the vote because they had always wielded political power.

Daily Life in the British Parliament: The Political Hostess | Edwardian Promenade 2009

Using this loophole in the justice system, the suffragettes increased their militant campaigns, including a devastating arson campaign during which attempts were made to burn the houses of anti-suffrage MPs, railway stations, golf courses, cricket fields and racecourse stands.

Shoulder to Shoulder | Edwardian Promenade 2010

She reminded me how American women won the right to vote in 1920 because of one letter – a letter written by the mother of an anti-suffrage legislator – and she had been swayed by the arguments of grassroots suffragists.

The DiMasi indictment 2009

If he's right, it's time for a male anti-suffrage movement, methinks.

The Drama of Empty Numbers 2006

Hitch quotes Kipling's famous poem, The Female of the Species, in support of his thesis that women aren't funny, but that wasn't how Kipling intended it; he wrote it as an anti-suffrage polemic, arguing that women shouldn't vote.

"Why Women Aren't Funny." Ann Althouse 2006

Helen Kendrick Johnson, author of the influential anti-suffrage book, Woman and the Republic, which did a lot to delay women's' suffrage.

July 2003 ~ Angry Bear 2003

Helen Kendrick Johnson, author of the influential anti-suffrage book, Woman and the Republic, which did a lot to delay women's' suffrage.

August 2003 ~ Angry Bear 2003

Helen Kendrick Johnson, author of the influential anti-suffrage book, Woman and the Republic, which did a lot to delay women's' suffrage.

~ Angry Bear 2003

Helen Kendrick Johnson, author of the influential anti-suffrage book, Woman and the Republic, which did a lot to delay women's' suffrage.

August 2003 ~ Angry Bear 2003