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in the ladies home journal excerpt, how did jane addams use language to persuade women of the importance of women's suffrage

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What arguments did women in the suffrage movement make to anti-suffrage women? TJ Boisseau suggests analyzing reformer Jane Addams's short essay "Why Women Should Vote," published in 1910. What nuances does Addams put in her arguments? How does what she says differ from other contemporary arguments for suffrage, and how is it the same? Are echoes of anything she writes about still debated today? What complications make the suffrage movement, as represented by this essay, less clear-cut than textbooks may paint it as?

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Answer 2

Jane Addams was a progressive reformer that wrote the article “Why Women Should Vote”. In this article she explained why women should be able to vote. She used the essay to speak to women and organize their minds into believing it was important for them to vote. She used a series of arguments regarding social housekeeping and maternalists arguments that would suggest that women needed to have the right to vote.