Womens Suffrage- who opposed it and why?

Question

Hi all, i was just touching up my assignment on Womens Suffrage and i noticed i havent put in anything about who actually opposed the Suffragette movement and why. Please help me, all answers much appreciated. Thanks

Answer 1

Both men and women opposed the suffrage for different reasons look at these links:

http://newhumanist.org.uk/1816

http://www.johndclare.net/Women1_Argumen...

http://www.nebraskastudies.org/0700/stor...

http://www.tolerance.org/teach/printar.j...

http://www.usacitiesonline.com/kshistory...

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=opp...

http://www.tcnj.edu/~odubote2/history.ht...

Answer 2

It was opposed by good and serious men who simply and genuinely believed that women did not have the intellectual or emotional capacity to deal with serious matters.  If they couldn't drink brandy and smoke cigars how could women be expected to understand the serious business of government?

Answer 3

A lot of people (women as well as men) did not believe that women should be involved in politics.  Some women thought that it would coarsen and brutalise women to be involved in the world of politics, they thought that women should concentrate on the domestic sphere, and in influencing men through their own characters rather than by voting

Queen Victoria was very shocked by the idea of what she described as "this mad wicked folly of women's rights."  florence Nightingale wrote that she was "brutally indifferent to the rights and wrongs of my s*x." Annie Oakley thought that voting was unladylike.  There were women's anti-suffrage leagues in both Britain and the USA.