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Women are People! (Paperback)
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Women are People! (Paperback)
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Loot Price R142
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Women Are People! (1917) is a collection of poems by Alice Duer
Miller. Inspired by her work as an activist for women's suffrage,
Miller published many of these poems individually in the New York
Tribune before compiling them into this larger work. Focusing on
the opposition of politicians and citizens alike, Miller makes a
compelling and frequently hilarious case for the extension of
voting rights to women across the nation. With her keen eye for
hypocrisy and even keener ear for the rhythms of the English
language, Alice Miller Duer crafts a poetry both personal and
political. In "Liberty," she lampoons the hypocrisy of men who
praise the goddess of Liberty while denying women access to basic
human rights: "O Liberty, how many men there are / Who do you
honour in a flowing phrase, / In martial measures and in patriot
lays, / Invoking you as a goddess and as star/ [...] / But when you
first approach them, when you turn / On their pale eyes your eyes'
unwavering light, / [...] / They fly before you, crying in their
fright: / 'Arrest this wild-eyed jade! Police! Police!'" In these
lighthearted lines, Miller satirizes the exclusion of women from
American democracy. Succinctly and convincingly, with humor and
with lyric grace, Miller makes her case for suffrage and the rights
of women very clear. As she expresses in her ironic title, women
are indeed people-despite the lengths to which they must repeatedly
go to prove it. With a beautifully designed cover and
professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Alice Duer
Miller's Women Are People! is a classic of American literature
reimagined for modern readers.
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