Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Spring 2019
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Abstract
In countless speeches and articles in La Follette’s Magazine, Belle Case La Follette urged that women needed the vote to secure “standards of cleanliness and healthfulness in the municipal home,” and because “home, society, and government are best when men and women keep together intellectually and spiritually.” This range of often mutually exclusive arguments created an inclusive big tent. However, arguing that women were qualified to vote by their roles as wives and mothers while maintaining that gender was superfluous to suffrage also contributed to an uneasy combination that would continue the conflict over women’s true nature and hinder their activism for decades to come.
Recommended Citation
Unger, N. C. (2019). Legacies of Belle La Follette’s Big Tent Campaigns for Women’s Suffrage. American Journalism. Retrieved from https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08821127.2019.1572412
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Comments
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in American Journalism on April 11, 2019, available online: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08821127.2019.1572412.