Woman s suffrage
DBQ 1: Women’s Suffrage
Analyze and compare the major points of view concerning suffrage and the ways in which individual commentators believed woman suffrage would affect the political and social order. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries women were being oppressed by not being allowed to vote, this made them less “value” as compared to the male gender. The point of view concerning woman suffrage was greatly affected by the gender role and the political standing of the person in question. The female point of view as shown in documents 2, 4, 5, 7, 9 and 10 showed in favour of women’s right to vote and to stand in electoral office. While documents 1, 3, 6, 11 and 13 were against it, these documents were from a male point of view. Another bias in these documents was the political standing of person, generally male, documents like 1, 3, 6, 11, 12 and 13 theses views were very similar to the views of the males, their voting audience. The women points of views were strongly towards the suffrage; this is because it would increase their social standing and they would be treated as equal to men. As Joulie Dubie, a French political activists, in document 3 states “it was ironic to call universal a suffrage that rejected women as minors lacking in judgement”, in this document she mentions how the unfair it was to woman to be treat as minors to men. For the women to get this right to vote and to run for office would increase their standing by making them equally to men. Arabella Shore, London National Society for Women’s Suffrage, says “With respect to the home as woman’s natural sphere, it is by no means a domain she rules, for as wife and mother she has hardly any legal rights.”(5) and Anna Mossoni in “The question of the Emancipation of Women in Italy”, also mentions “The woman question affirms more profoundly the roots of democracy, discredits the rule of force, advances women in the economic sphere, and weakens the power of traditional prejudices” (4), the
Analyze and compare the major points of view concerning suffrage and the ways in which individual commentators believed woman suffrage would affect the political and social order. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries women were being oppressed by not being allowed to vote, this made them less “value” as compared to the male gender. The point of view concerning woman suffrage was greatly affected by the gender role and the political standing of the person in question. The female point of view as shown in documents 2, 4, 5, 7, 9 and 10 showed in favour of women’s right to vote and to stand in electoral office. While documents 1, 3, 6, 11 and 13 were against it, these documents were from a male point of view. Another bias in these documents was the political standing of person, generally male, documents like 1, 3, 6, 11, 12 and 13 theses views were very similar to the views of the males, their voting audience. The women points of views were strongly towards the suffrage; this is because it would increase their social standing and they would be treated as equal to men. As Joulie Dubie, a French political activists, in document 3 states “it was ironic to call universal a suffrage that rejected women as minors lacking in judgement”, in this document she mentions how the unfair it was to woman to be treat as minors to men. For the women to get this right to vote and to run for office would increase their standing by making them equally to men. Arabella Shore, London National Society for Women’s Suffrage, says “With respect to the home as woman’s natural sphere, it is by no means a domain she rules, for as wife and mother she has hardly any legal rights.”(5) and Anna Mossoni in “The question of the Emancipation of Women in Italy”, also mentions “The woman question affirms more profoundly the roots of democracy, discredits the rule of force, advances women in the economic sphere, and weakens the power of traditional prejudices” (4), the