Woman and the Republic. A Survey of the Woman-Suffrage Movement in the United States and a Discussion of the Claims and Arguments of Its Foremost Advocates.
Johnson, Helen Kendrick. Woman and the Republic A Survey of the Woman-Suffrage Movement in the United States and a Discussion of the Claims and Arguments of Its Foremost Advocates. New York: National League for the Civic Education of Women, 1897.
12mo, 327 pp.; decorated green wove cloth stamped in dark green and gold-gilt, front and spine; at front cover a rectangular frame adorned with oak leaves and acorns surrounds the title which is set off by vertical stripes above and below; front blank lacking top corner; spine a little dim; firm, crisp copy; very good.
First edition. A well received and widely-read antifeminist tract which looked at woman suffrage as “related to education, the professions, the church, and the home” [Krichmar]. Helen Kendrick Johnson reflects upon the History Of Women’s Suffrage, the WCTU, the writings of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Lucy Stone, Mary Putnam-Jacobi, to mention a few. She argues that as much as suffrage leaders desire votes for women, they have little concerned themselves with public policy. As for women and the Church, she refers to Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s recently published The Woman’s Bible as “that disgraceful effusion.” A useful reflection of contemporary attitudes on women’s rights. Krichmar 1758. Timelines, 38.
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