Woman and the Republic

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Helen Kendrick Johnson. Woman and the Republic

Woman and the Republic

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CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER II. IS WOMAN SUFFRAGE DEMOCRATIC? CHAPTER III. WOMAN SUFFRAGE AND THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC CHAPTER IV. WOMAN SUFFRAGE AND PHILANTHROPY CHAPTER V. WOMAN SUFFRAGE AND THE LAWS CHAPTER VI. WOMAN SUFFRAGE AND THE TRADES CHAPTER VII. WOMAN SUFFRAGE AND THE PROFESSIONS CHAPTER VIII. WOMAN SUFFRAGE AND EDUCATION CHAPTER IX. WOMAN SUFFRAGE AND THE CHURCH CHAPTER X. WOMAN SUFFRAGE AND SEX CHAPTER XI. WOMAN SUFFRAGE AND THE HOME CHAPTER XII. CONCLUSION. CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTORY

CHAPTER II

IS WOMAN SUFFRAGE DEMOCRATIC?

CHAPTER III

WOMAN SUFFRAGE AND THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC

CHAPTER IV

WOMAN SUFFRAGE AND PHILANTHROPY

CHAPTER V

WOMAN SUFFRAGE AND THE LAWS

CHAPTER VI

WOMAN SUFFRAGE AND THE TRADES

CHAPTER VII

WOMAN SUFFRAGE AND THE PROFESSIONS

CHAPTER VIII

WOMAN SUFFRAGE AND EDUCATION

COUNTIES. 1893. 1894. 1895

CHAPTER IX

WOMAN SUFFRAGE AND THE CHURCH

CHAPTER X

WOMAN SUFFRAGE AND SEX

CHAPTER XI

WOMAN SUFFRAGE AND THE HOME

CHAPTER XII

CONCLUSION

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Helen Kendrick Johnson

A Survey of the Woman-Suffrage Movement in the United States and a Discussion of the Claims and Arguments of Its Foremost Advocates

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Seclusion was the best thing that the most intellectual pre-Christian republic could give to its honorable women. The freedom with which the hetairse, who were foreigners or daughters of slaves, mingled with statesmen and philosophers, brought them open political influence, but not a hint of voting power or of office-holding.

For the sake of brevity, I will confine my reference to Roman custom to a single pregnant sentence from Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of the Empire." He says: "In every age and country the wiser, or at least the stronger of the two sexes, has usurped the powers of the state, and confined the other to the cares and pleasures of domestic life. In hereditary monarchies, however, and especially in those of modern Europe, the gallant spirit of chivalry, and the law of succession, have accustomed us to allow a singular exception, and a woman is often acknowledged the absolute sovereign of a great kingdom, in which she would be deemed incapable of exercising the smallest employment, civil or military. But, as the Roman Emperors were still considered as the generals and magistrates of the Republic, their wives and mothers, although dignified by the name of Augusta, were never associated to their personal honors; and a female reign would have appeared an inexplicable prodigy in the eyes of those primitive Romans, who married without love, or loved without delicacy or respect."

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