Although other historians have viewed the suffrage movement as
aimed at exclusively political ends, she argues that such a
categorization ignores many of the most compelling reasons why
thousands of middle and upper-class women risked ostracism,
obloquy, and, often, physical harm in the pursuit of the right to
vote and why their efforts met with such intense opposition. The
alliance of respectable" middle-class women with prostitutes, the
attack on marriage, and the suffragists' distrust of the medical
profession are among the topics the author addresses. Drawing on
hypotheses advanced by Michel Foucault, she asserts that feminists
sought no less than the total transformation of the lives of
women.
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