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This type of writing eventually led to the introduction and recognition of labor unions once the labor surplus began to decrease. However, the damage by this article is still done as it target political issues that the US government had yet to solve. This is yet another is ''The Masses'' tackles that the US government had no answer to at the time. | This type of writing eventually led to the introduction and recognition of labor unions once the labor surplus began to decrease. However, the damage by this article is still done as it target political issues that the US government had yet to solve. This is yet another is ''The Masses'' tackles that the US government had no answer to at the time. | ||
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| + | '''Confession of a Suffrage Orator''' by Max Eastman (Links) | ||
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| + | ''"Why to say that woman's sphere is the home after the census says it isn't, is like saying the earth is flat after a hundred thousand people have sailed round it!"'' | ||
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| + | In this article, Eastman condemns the domestic idealist propagandist for pandering to society's wishes. He denounces their arguments as "old... classed, and codified... false and foolish too." | ||
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| + | ''"Why to say that woman's sphere is the home after the census says it isn't, is like saying the earth is flat after a hundred thousand people have sailed round it!"'' | ||
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| + | Instead, Eastman proposes a compromise of tolerance: ''"Let us agree that woman's proper sphere is the home, whenever it is."'' He acknowledges that many women are satisfied as homemakers, but resents that society pushes this as the ideal for women. Eastman highlights the women who aren't homemakers, ''"hindered... by the dogma which you and your society hold over them..."'' Eastman's strongest argument for the suffragists connected women's place in society to their familial responsibilities: | ||
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| + | ''"No woman is fit to bring children into this world until she knows to the full the rough actual character of the world into which she is bringing them. And she will never know that until we lift from her—in her own growing years—the repressive prejudice that expresses itself and maintains itself in refusing to make her a citizen."'' | ||
===Vol. 9 No. 8=== | ===Vol. 9 No. 8=== | ||
