National Anti-Suffrage Association Poster

Anti-suffragism was a political movement composed mainly of women, begun in the late 19th century in order to campaign against women's suffrage in the United States and United Kingdom. It was closely associated with "domestic feminism", the belief that women had the right to complete freedom within the home. The Catholic Encyclopaedia c. 1912, for example, recommended that Catholics support the anti-suffrage movement. In Britain, the anti-suffragists numbered 160 in 1902. The Women's National Anti-Suffrage League, publisher of the Anti-Suffrage Review, submitted a petition to Parliament in 1907 with 87,500 names, but it was discovered to be fraudulent. In New York, the New York State Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage was founded in 1897, and by 1908 it had over 90 members. It was active in producing pamphlets and publications explaining their views of women's suffrage, until the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was passed in 1920. A Geneva branch was founded in 1909. The suffragettes in New York often extended invitations to open discussion with the anti-suffragists. The New York association had its own magazine, first The Anti-Suffragist published by Mrs. William Winslow Crannell from July 1908 to April 1912, later The Woman's Protest produced by the organisation at large. Anti-suffragism was not limited to conservative elements. The anarchist Emma Goldman opposed suffragism on the grounds that women were more inclined towards legal enforcement of morality (as in the Women's Temperance Leagues); that women were the equals of men; and that suffrage would not make a difference. She also said that activists ought to advocate revolution rather than seek greater privileges within an inherently unjust system. Progressives criticised suffrage in the Utah Territory as a cynical Mormon ploy, resulting in the passage of the Edmunds-Tucker Act. Click on the banner to Save 10% on this and any zazzle order in addition to a $5.00 sign up bonus All Rights Reserved; without: prejudice, recourse or notice (U.C.C. 1-308) http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/97500067/ "anti suffrage" "anti-suffrage" "oppose suffrage" "against suffrage" "national anti-suffrage association" "anti-suffrage association" suffragettes suffrage "women's suffrage" woman women "women's rights" "national woman's party" womans womens "vintage women" "vintage woman" "ninteenth amendment" "19th amendment" "right to vote" "women's right to vote" "voting rights" suffragists poster print picture photo pic photograph