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Cleaned my room! Yay! Still have to vacuum, but right now I'm just happy I can see the carpet at all!

My professor for my Women's Lit course showed the first half hour or so of a documentary by Ken Burns about Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Was very interesting. I knew, of course, that the causes of women's suffrage and abolition were very closely linked, but I didn't know they were also linked with the temperance movement. I thought that was very interesting.

What was even more interesting, though, and even a little disheartening, was the thought that, for all the focus history books put on abolition and the American Civil War, why is the women's suffrage movement so little mentioned? Not to minimize the abolitionists' cause, but I hardly heard about suffrage at all in school, and what I did hear was terribly unflattering.

Anyway, I put the documentary in my Netflix queue, and I should be receiving it in a couple days. On a completely shallow note, even if I cared nothing for the subject matter, I'd still want to watch it, if only to see the pictures of the suffragettes. The pictures from the early 20th century are especially pretty; I love those fashions.

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You love the balloon sleeves and pigeon silhouette? :-P

Good point about the suffrage movement. I think people connect it with modern feminism, which (sorry to say) would put me off too. But it's a great story that should be told more often. I remember studying it a little, but we didn't go into depth much.

Hee! No, I love the cute little hats. Actually, I'm thinking more 20's and 30'2 than turn of the century, but I still love looking at the pictures.

It's really sad that the crazies have turned people off to hearing about feminism so badly. I can't talk to my father or brother about it at all. They call me a feminist as if it's a bad word.

It's the screaming apples that get all the attention, but the truth is without the Suffrage movement we wouldn't be able to vote much less dictate what medical attentions we receive. Back in those days, the docs asked the husbands or the fathers before doing any surgeries on the wives or daughters. In fact, the male side of the family could institutionalize the females without much trouble. All they had to do was sign papers.

Hey pretty dresses and nice carriages are sweet, but I like the idea of NOT being in a nutfarm a lot more.

Totally. Not to mention the whole being-able-to-prosecute-rapists thing. Even if there's still a ways to go in that respect.

Carriages are actually one thing I don't envy. I like being able to go 55 mph and still feel like I'm sitting still.

I don't know if you had discovered the bitter pill that both Cady Stanton and Anthony had to swallow from Douglass. The women's movement had supported the abolition movement not only because they felt it was the right thing to do, but also because they were supposed to get support on the women suffrage movement. However, when it all came down to it, Douglass stated and I'm paraphrasing here, "Let African-American men get the vote first, ladies." Therefore, women were forced to back away from the importance of their issue, to totally push African-American men suffrage.

And that was a bitter pill for many women to swallow. Not only because they were fighting for rights for women for sometime, but they felt in a sense they were betrayed. Inevitably, rights for ALL men were secured for women could vote. And, without sounding against anyone here's the explaination why. Women who were fighting for the right to vote were educated, well-informed, intelligent, and articulate. They rightly felt they deserved to be able to vote.

But, it's really good topic to explore. And I'll always reccommend a Ken Burns documentary whether it's on Jazz, the Civil War, or women's suffrage, they are all good.