On this day in 1911, suffragettes in California squeaked out a victory, making the state the sixth to give women the vote and doubling the number of female voters in the U.S. See David Dismore’s great summary at Ms.
Campaign poster reproduction (c. 1896-1910, from David Dismore’s collection):
The New York Times reports:
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una — October 10, 2010
The idea of "giving" suffrage to women is interesting, implying that women did not earn this right or that it somehow belongs to them simply because they are citizens but rather that it was kindly bestowed on them by men.
Don P. — October 10, 2010
I once came across a very old book in the Cambridge (MA) Public Library, called "Heroines of the Recent Battle over Women's Suffrage". Guess what? It was about women who has OPPOSED it. Wasn't expecting that.
A — October 10, 2010
I wonder why Washington, the fifth state (in 1910), was left off that poster. To avoid confusion with DC?
The Dismore link didn't work for me. Here it is:
http://msmagazine.com/blog/blog/2010/10/10/october-10-1911-a-suffrage-cliffhanger-in-california/
Y — October 11, 2010
Women's suffrage and women's rights are just more of Marx's insight that cultural meaning often obfuscates economic motivations. These people didn't even know what they were fighting for. So naïve