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.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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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?

She was also the founding president of the Women’s Anti-Suffrage League in 1908. Why would such a public and political figure oppose women’s enfranchisement?

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 ...

Anti-suffrage postcard by the Dunston-Weiler Lithograph Company of New York, part of a 12-card series, 1909 (Palczewski, Catherine H. Postcard Archive. University of Northern Iowa. Cedar Falls, Iowa) ...