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Will be useful later probably

"Women are no longer to be considered little tootsey wootseys who have nothing to do but look pretty... They are determined to take an active part in the community and look pretty too"

The start of an ongoing fight to dethrone one of the main double standard issues we as the American people still subscribe to.

Women really cared about this issue because it affected everything about their lives so they poured everything they had at it, even if it meant risking a whole hell of a lot.

Very brave and radical for the times. But as the paragraph later states, it bore wonderful gains in the world of publicity and word-of-mouth for the women's rights movement

After she was able to gain some momentum in her activism, she began holding larger gatherings. A few are documented and explained in the preceding paragraph.

HUGE turning point and massive strides being taken. Women in front of legislature was not something seen as "right"

This idea that women should be able to work in the public sphere was still EXTREMELY radical. Im not surprised it wasn't as warmly received/

Pretty significant contribution.

Blatch's efforts unfortunately didn't come without tension and pushback within its body of members. Many of which stemmed from fundamental differences in how and WHY the vote was being demanded.

Blatch created a space where high- value professional women could be celebrated and heard. Doctors, lawyers ect were the majority of the member associated with her society.

Formation of her League provided the basis for a calmer, less and mostly non-violent form of suffrage militance that was common among British suffragists.

Talks about the evolution of the importance of the vote for working class feminists and how it became increasingly more important to them when they realized that the only way for them so achieve things like better working conditions was to be heard legally. Blatch brought in reinforcements through existing suffrage societies to have this need recognized. The lack of traction on this effort is what persuaded Blatch to Form her own society called the Equality League of Self Supporting Women.

Over time Blatch gained a lot of support from other working class feminists

This section talks more about the actions the Blatcn took and the activities that she engaged in. It also mentions a bit about her implied political stance and how other women should harness the power of the voice through their vote.

Here we are told that Blatch took more of an administrative role in the WTUL in executive positions alongside other notable working class women.

Main takeaway here is that in 1902 when the Woman's Trade Union League was formed, Blatch being one of the first elite women to join, it was a society in which both working class and elite class women were working together. It was no longer about just uplifting working class women but about empowering them to speak for themselves. This league was a platform that served to highlight working class feminism similar yet distinct from the narrative of their elite sisters.

Yet another million dollar question

Blatch knew that to the core women worked for the balance it brought to their lives. The money in some ways seems a little bit like an afterthought, although not often.

Another million dollar question. Probably key.

Essentially she is saying here that homemaker women should get paid the same or similarly to professional women because their services or nurturing and caring for the home is what allowed professional women to be successful in their careers. Until then not much progress would be able to be made in this realm.

Also Seems pretty key

Seems pretty key based on what Ive read closely

The backbone of Blatch's work was aimed around making sure all women regardless of class had the opportunity to take part in suffrage campaigns. Since working women represented such a large population Blatch knew that was critical to expand the movement into what she hoped it would become

This section talks more specifically about how Harriot Blatch became active in the movement, talking about some major moments at the beginning of her quest for representation.

The million dollar question!! Useful to illustrate the delicate balance between gaining power, yet not hampering one's reputation within a society.

Elite women knew that they held much power and that as long as they earned the right to vote for all, others would just follow suit because they were not capable of thinking for themselves, WRONG. In fact, these women claimed they spoke for all, but instead twisted the narrative to fit what THEY wanted, Not necessarily what was best for the COMMON good. If working-class women were given the opportunity to fight, things would likely have looked vastly different.

Sadly elite women did not want to share these commodities. This is the driving idea of this entire paragraph.

Many claimed that women were very adept to lead because they exuded the right qualities to be a leader but that they must also EARN their right to lead.

The elite women also understood that with women's suffrage came increased privilege, specifically for their class. One suffragist argued that giving woman access to things like education, new professions would also lead to political equality, although it wasn't a path of least resistance. She goes on to claim that civilly engaged women should also have the opportunity to serve theor communitie(s), just like men.

In this paragraph we begin to understand why wealthy women were so active in the movement- because they agreed that their influence in government policies needed to be stronger. They thought be involved in women's suffrage would increase their chances of achieving that goal. Their involvement also served as a way for elite women to reinstate their duties of setting a positive moral tone in society,

Worth mentioning the Anthony was not a major factor for my assignment.

Here we can see the efforts of suffragists to gain attention from those that could help the most- through money and status. Because several of those women were already involved in other leagues, the suffragist's efforts were largely fruitless.

The constitutional convention of 1894 provided fuel for the women's suffrage movement, arguing that women should serve as allies to their male counterparts. As a result they tried to get women elected to the convention. When that failed they shifted their focus to getting heard through including suffrage in amendments written in the future.

Here we get a deeper insight into how the revival began and who was at the. forefront. Newsflash-it was largely WHITE MEN It goes on to say that issues surrounding political corruption was the main problem tackled at the constitutional convention held in 1894 with agenda items such as drafting rules (laws) and organizing the branches that would go on make up the governing body.

THESIS

This section breaks down the SCOPE of Harriot Blatch's work and mentions where those focuses likely stemmed from, her involvement in the Women's Trade Union League.

Here, DuBois explains why she dislikes the classist terms, but goes on to explain the purpose she thinks they serve. They serve merely to describe relations between classes that was starting to take shape around that time. It did not serve to put women in a box or to alienate them more.

Here Dubois introduces a prominent person, Harriot Stanton Blatch, provides some background on her and explains why Blatch's ideas support her claims.

This paragraph highlights how in modern teaching and scholarship, women's suffrage is still not a main topic that is covered, rather just passively lumped in to other things, Due to the nature of the women's suffrage movement, some believe that it is in part responsible for highlighting political concerns for the era and the aspects that lead to their restructuring. It goes on to explain that women's suffrage was the backbone for the history of American politics.

This paragraph highlights that while women's impact was beginning to be noticed, the ideas of the "cult of true womanhood" was still very prevalent. Women were supposed to be homemakers, nurturers and focus their work within the church, leaving the men to be the face of politics, and consequentially leaving women's suffrage out of the conversation around the Progressive Era entirely.

This paragraph is essentially stating what marks the Progressive Era in history, and while before it was focused mainly on social justice and social control, historians have now began to put more emphasis and time into the politics aspect of the time period. They focused specifically on how the idea of democracy was altered throughout the progressive era and thus how those changes altered how individuals went about solving issues through moral and political reform.