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What backlash to landmark voting law tells us about debate today

What backlash to landmark voting law tells us about debate today
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The Real Legacy of the Suffrage Movement

The Real Legacy of the Suffrage Movement Deborah Cohen © Provided by The Atlantic Illustration by Valerie Chiang; images from Hulton Archive / Shel Hershorn / Gado / Getty; Associated Press This article was published online on December 20, 2020. Women’s-suffrage campaigners and their equally adamant opponents were in full agreement on one fundamental point: Giving women the vote would change everything. It would end poverty, and wars, too! So promised Britain’s militant suffragists, envisioning a civilization in which the patriarchy was upended and society’s evils were largely vanquished. A Greek chorus of “antis” foretold a different future. The death of the family! The destruction of morality! After most British women over the age of 30 won the vote, in 1918, the Liberal politician and diplomat Lord Esher saw a watershed moment at hand. An “avalanche of women has been hurled into the political chaos,” he wrote. “Institutions as well as ideas

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