Summary Of Estelle B Freedman's Article On Feminism

In the introduction of the reading of Estelle B. Freedman she starts by bringing up an article by Arthur S. Link on the Progressive movement and looked on some other groups that were advocating social justice. She points out that Link failed to mention how feminist involved in the suffrage movement or others more broadly involved in social reform did. The author goes on saying that Link failed to ask the right question as far as feminism was concern during the women’s movement. The more sensible question that the author suggested was what had happened to feminism during the decades after achieving the suffrage in this country. It seems hard to see that women could be ignored when daily news was on women’s rights during the times in the 19th