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Anti-suffrage: Endnotes
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Queen Victoria called women’s rights a “mad, wicked folly.”
But unlike their American counterparts, some British anti-suffragists proposed women’s councils, a ministry for women and even a separate women’s chamber of parliament organised around the belief that the sexes had different duties.
To understand how that vision made sense, I compare British and American anti-suffragism, from Queen Victoria and…
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