A Common-Sense View of Woman Suffrage (1908)
By Jesse Lynch Williams
The Ohio State Rare Books and Manuscripts Library, Part of the Pro-Suffrage Campaign Literature Collection
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Although the work Suffragettes did was powerful, the National American Woman Suffrage Association enlisted help from the Men’s League for Woman Suffrage. Jesse Lynch Williams, an American author, was one of the men who created campaign-related literature for the suffrage movement. In this pamphlet, Williams takes some common myths about the movement and flips them on their head. One of these themes is the idea that supporting the suffrage movement implies you hate marriage or your husband. This was a typical assumption, as it can be seen in When Women Vote, as well. However, as Williams analyzes, this assumption implies that women are lesser once married, rather than joined into a union with their husband. He notes that this progression of female independence is natural, expected.