Item #238905 “Women Do Not Want It.”. Alice Stone Blackwell.

“Women Do Not Want It.”.

[Harrisburg, Pa: Pennsylvania Women Suffrage Association, c. 1914].

Price: $450.00


About the item

7 x 6-1/4 inches. Some overall browning, else fine. OCLC records only a New York printing.

Item #238905

Suffragette circular arguing that women have always been complicit in their own subjugation, citing women’s conservative reactions to Vassar College and female education in general. Blackwell argues that the suffragist movement must persist despite the indifference or opposition of those who stand to benefit from reform: “… human nature is conservative, and it is fully as conservative in women as in men. The persons who take a strong interest in any reform are generally few … ”.