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[[File:Election Day!-E W Guston.jpg|thumb|''Election Day!'' anti-suffrage cartoon by E. W. Guston, 1909]]
[[File:Looking backward - Laura E. Foster. LCCN2002716765.jpg|thumb|"Looking backward" by [[Laura E. Foster]], 1912]]
While men were involved in the anti-suffrage movement in the [[United States]], most anti-suffrage groups were led and supported by women.{{sfn|Thurner|1993|p=36}} In fact, more women joined Anti-suffrage groups than suffrage associations, until 1916.<ref>http://suffrageandthemedia.org/source/never-fight-woman-man-textbooks-dont-say-womens-suffrage/
[[Helen Kendrick Johnson|Helen Kendrick Johnson's]] ''Woman and the Republic'' (1897) was a lauded anti-suffrage book that described the reasons for opposing women's right to vote.{{sfn|Thurner|1993|p=36}} Other books, such as [[Molly Elliot Seawell|Molly Elliot Seawell's]] ''The Ladies' Battle'' (1911), [[Ida Tarbell|Ida Tarbell's]] ''The Business of Being a Woman'' (1912), [[Grace Duffield Goodwin|Grace Duffield Goodwin's]] ''Anti-Suffrage: Ten Good Reasons'' (1915) and [[Annie Riley Hale|Annie Riley Hale's]] ''The Eden Sphinx'' (1916) were similarly well-received by the media and used as a "coherent rationale for opposing women's enfranchisement."{{sfn|Thurner|1993|p=36}}
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