![]() Women in Politics, 1. I got my first 1- star review of Somebody to Love! And it was the best possible kind of 1- star review too! How can a 1- star review be a good thing, you ask?
Tammany farmer., October 13, 1900, Image 1 About St. Chronicling America: Historic American. These seventeen letters involved the children of a retired Polish farmer. If he does his best and listens to what they tell him to do they will let him go sooner. Industry information at your fingertips. Over 200,000 Hollywood insiders. Enhance your IMDb Page.Well, when the criticism is all about a point of historical accuracy, and when the reviewer is, frankly, wrong, it gives me a great opportunity to talk about my favorite subject: History. The accusation was that it is grossly historically inaccurate for Phineas Bell to muse that his 4- year old niece, Eloise, could be President of the United States someday. The reviewer scoffed at the idea, saying that in 1. I couldn. Very far from it if you consider that the first woman was elected to Congress in 1. Yes, Jeanette Rankin was elected to the House of Representatives from the state of, you guessed it, Montana, not in 1. If a woman could be elected to Congress in 1. Jeanette Rankin, first woman elected to Congress in 1. History runs deeper than that, though. It would be false to assume that no one, female or male, had any sort of dreams or ambitions in the political arena whatsoever until. In fact, the roots of the suffrage movement run deep, deep into the first half of the 1. Anthony spent the greater part of the 1. They had enough support to fill lecture halls and demonstrations and to make their voices heard at the highest level. ![]() They were fighting so that women could participate in government, so why not continue that dream to hope that someday a woman could be the head of that government? The truth of women in politics stretches even further than that, though. True, women may not have won the vote federally until 1. Wyoming granted women the right to vote in 1. Again, I propose that the hopes and dreams of the people who supported the movement could easily have extended far beyond just the vote. Why? What made them so advanced and enlightened? Well, one theory was that women were able to have more direct participation in western politics precisely because conditions were neither advanced nor enlightened. Life on the frontier was harsh. In some cases it was primitive and it was lonely. With so little people to tame the land and govern it, women became an essential part of political life. They were sometimes left in possession of land and businesses when their husbands died. Better yet, in some cases they were considered equal partners in enterprising endeavors because the men in their lives had no choice but to count on them. So many women rose to the occasion that their political rights were a natural matter of course. So impressive was the political power of women in the west and the role that they were given in state and local government, that the suffrage movement back east looked to them as example of what women could do and be and achieve. The Progressive Movement, which is generally held to have started in the 1. West. If you take nothing else from this lightning- fast examination of women in politics in and prior to 1. Even though women did not gain the vote until 1. Stanton, Stone, and Anthony became a reality. So was it unrealistic of me to have a man speculate that his niece could become president in 1. And remember too, in 1. England had a queen, and she wasn. Women could, and would, rule. Like what you? I love the fact that you read it! Sign up for my quarterly newsletter to receive special content, sneak- peeks, and treats that only subscribers are privy to.
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