Common Sense" Applied to Woman Suffrage: A Statement of the Reasons Which Justify the Demand to Extend the Suffrage to Women... New York State Convention of 1894.
Putnam-Jacobi, Mary. “Common Sense” Applied to Woman Suffrage; A Statement of the Reasons which Justify the Demand to Extend the Suffrage to Women, with Consideration of the Arguments against such Enfranchisement, and with Special Reference to the New York State Convention of 1894. New York and London: G.P. Putnam, 1894.
12mo; a “Questions of the Day” title; the endpapers print a full listing of the series; ex libris front pastedown; binding shows mild overall use with rubbing and light wear (especially at tips and spinal ends); pencil markings to text (blue pencil used in two or three places); smooth dark brown cloth stamped in black at the front cover and in gilt at the spine; generally fresh and tight; very good.
First edition. The leading woman physician of her time, Mary Putnam Jacobi (1842-1906), one of the first to recognize the environmental effects on health, wrote some 100 scientific papers in the course of her career and gradually won admittance to the leading medical organizations in the United States. In 1894, Dr. Jacobi campaigned with other New York City women in an attempt to persuade the state constitutional convention to adopt a suffrage amendment. She spoke at the Convention and her speech appears in full in the appendix; the women’s attempts proved unsuccessful. Dr. Jacobi, however, did publish this classic feminist statement. With her medical training, Dr. Jacobi was well positioned to refute a staple of anti-suffrage literature, that woman’s frail anatomy could not withstand the rigors of political life.
American Women’s History, p. 187.
Franklin, p. 71.
Krichmar 1754.
NAW II, pp. 263-264.
Timelines, pp. 36-37, 223.
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