Anti-suffragism: Difference between revisions

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/</ref> {{bare URL inline|date=March 2023}} While these groups openly stated that they wanted [[politics]] to be left to men, it was more often women addressing political bodies with anti-suffrage arguments.{{sfn|Thurner|1993|p=36}} The first women-led anti-suffrage group in the United States was the [[Anti-Sixteenth Amendment Society]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Easton-Flake|first=Amy|date=March 2013|title=Harriet Beecher Stowe's Multifaceted Response to the Nineteenth-Century Woman Question|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/43284971|journal=The New England Quarterly|volume=86|issue=1|pages=29–59|doi=10.1162/TNEQ_a_00256|jstor=43284971|s2cid=57560430|url-access=registration|via=JSTOR}}</ref> The group was started by [[Madeleine Vinton Dahlgren]] in 1869.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Conkling|first=Winifred|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BCEcDgAAQBAJ&dq=%22anti+sixteenth+amendment+society%22&pg=PA167|title=Votes for Women!: American Suffragists and the Battle for the Ballot|publisher=Algonquin|year=2018|isbn=978-1-61620-769-4|location=New York|page=165}}</ref> During the fight to pass the [[Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution|nineteenth amendment]], women increasingly took on a leading role in the anti-suffrage movement.{{sfn|Dodd|2013|p=713}}