WMS 50 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5-6: Anti-Suffragism, Equal Rights Amendment, Coverture
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The cartoon form required the artist to boil complicated ideas down to their essences. Once they had secured the 19th amendment in 1920, suffragists could hardly rest on. There remained significant questions about the effects of coverture on married their laurels. women"s citizenship. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, advocates on both sides continued to debate the merits of an equal rights amendment and its potential effects on working women. Despite divisions over an era (equal rights amendment), many feminists sustained their emancipationist vision beyond 1920. For african american feminists, the term emancipation continued to have deeper, more complex, and multi-dimensional meanings than it did for white feminists. Using their citizenship rights, many former anti-suffragists organized to promote a politically conservative, activist agenda, sounding the alarm over what they considered to be the dangers of woman suffrage, feminism, and internationalism. Women"s rights in an era of economic depression.
