As the suffragist movement gained momentum, women mobilized to oppose the 19th Amendment. The anti-suffragists became a nationwide force that would influence later generations of conservative women.

The anti-suffrage movement enlisted prominent women in the fierce fight against the 19th Amendment. Josephine Pearson promised her mother she'd fight.

Some anti-suffrage material mixed in political arguments with household tips to, as the Jewish Women’s Archive writes, “convince ordinary women that the right to vote was unnecessary.” In ...

Anti-suffrage women were, then, fundamentally conservative: they sought to conserve an existing social landscape. But that didn’t mean that some of them didn’t also embrace progressive politics.

As the suffrage movement picked up steam in the late 19th century, it was increasingly countered by an organized, women-led anti-suffrage movement, which mirrored its arguments, tactics and public ...

The group later changed its name to the Women's Anti-Suffrage Association of Massachusetts. By 1915, the association had nearly 37,000 members, according to the Massachusetts Historical Society.

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"You have broadsides being distributed by the anti-suffrage forces saying, 'Do you realize that allowing the 19th Amendment to be ratified is going to bring back the horrors of Reconstruction?

Many anti-suffrage postcards from the time depict men performing what were then considered women’s roles in the house, like cooking, cleaning and caring for their children while their wives went ...