The Limits of Sisterhood by Jeanne Boydston Mary Kelley Anne Margolis

Author:Jeanne Boydston, Mary Kelley, Anne Margolis [Jeanne Boydston, Mary Kelley, Anne Margolis]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, Women's Studies
ISBN: 9781469648903
Google: HPXGDwAAQBAJ
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2018-08-25T04:13:48+00:00

NOTES

1. Isabella published her correspondence with Mill in Womanhood: Its Sanctities and Fidelities (Boston: Lee and Shepard Publishers, 1873), pp. 33-37. See Document 57.

2. Although the analogy between housekeeping on a private scale and government, which was conceived of as “enlarged housekeeping,” has been identified as a species of late nineteenth-century Progressive era thought, it was implicit in Isabella’s postbellum writings and suffrage-related correspondence. According to historian Aileen Kraditor, this analogy provided turn-of-the-century women such as Florence Kelley and Jane Addams with a justification of and a blueprint for their entry into politics, settlement work, and other reform-related activities. See Kraditor’s The Ideas of the Woman Suffrage Movement: 1890—1920 (Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Books, 1965), especially pp. 51-55. Anne F. and Andrew M. Scott discuss the alliance between the suffrage movement and the Women’s Christian Temperance Union under the leadership of Frances Willard in One Half the People: The Fight for Woman Suffrage (New York: J. B. Lippincott and Co., 1975), PP. 2.0—22. In their selection of documents as well as in their headnotes, they lend support to the assumption that the government as enlarged housekeeping argument was primarily associated with the postbellum temperance movement and is therefore a product of late nineteenth-century suffragist thought. See, for example, their introduction to the remarks of Mrs. Zerelda G. Wallace before the Senate Judiciary Committee in January of 1880, reprinted in Scott and Scott, Fight for Woman Suffrage, pp. 96—99.

3. Isabella Beecher Hooker, A Mother’s Letters to a Daughter on Woman Suffrage (Hartford: Press of Case, Lockwood and Brainard, 1870), pp. 3, 18-19. See Document 59. This tract of the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association was originally published anonymously in Putnam’s Magazine for November and December of 1868. In her introduction to John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor Mill: Essays on Sex Equality (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970), Alice S. Rossi effectively discredits the popular misconception that John rather than Harriet Taylor Mill was the primary author of this article on the “Enfranchisement of Women” for the July 1851 Westminster Review. Rossi also notes that, unlike her husband, Harriet Mill insisted that even married women should seek employment in order to avoid financial dependence upon men. In The Subjection of Women John Stuart Mill would attempt to resolve the inconsistency in his own position by arguing that although a married woman should have the “power” to support herself, it was not “a desirable custom” that she should exercise that power. Rossi, Essays on Sex Equality, pp. 41-43, 178-80. Both essays have been reprinted by Rossi in their entirety.

4. Isabella Beecher Hooker, An Argument on United States Citizenship Before the Constitutional Convention of the State of Connecticut, January 1, 1902 (Hartford: Plimpton, Mfg., printers, 1902), pp. 9-11. See Document 67. Ironically, the convention refused to grant Hooker the right to be heard on this issue. Her account of this incident can be found in “The Last of the Beechers,” The Connecticut Magazine 9 (May 1905): 298.

5. Isabella Beecher Hooker, The Constitutional Rights of the Women of the United States: An Address Before the International Council of Women, Washington, D.

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