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What was the 19th century view of a womens role and how did this ideal of womanhood influence attitudes about suffrage? (need to be answered ASAP)

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The ideology of rigidly patriarchal family life was so omnipotent that even radically minded women could not resist it. They had to fight (not always successfully) and seek a compromise between patriarchal family life and their rights. For most feminists of the first wave, who lived in the 19th century, the solution was the concept of identity, or parity of differences, recognizing the equality of women and men due to the fact that they have different and complementary qualities.

Since the mid-19th century, the women's movement is gaining strength, the demands of feminists in different countries began to take the form of public campaigns and political actions. It should be noted that the right to vote was not initially the basic requirement of feminists, and only at the end of the 19th century, when other fundamental rights were considered to be obtained (the right to education, property, earnings, guardianship, protection from physical violence by the husband), the organized women's movement passes from a moderate to a more radical stage, putting forward as the main point of its program the requirement of granting voting rights to women. Suffrage itself - - thanks to the English feminists who used this concept in relation to primarily women's suffrage - went down in history as a definition of the political direction in feminism. Women were increasingly convinced that suffrage was paramount and was the key to further progress. The suffragists believed that with the legal opportunity to vote in elections, women would soon be freed from all other forms of discrimination.

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