Talk:Anti-suffragism

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The term "Anti-suffragism" returns only 1 370 results in Google. Is this a real word? --MZMcBride 03:05, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

Yes; you can see the newspaper clippings for uses of it. Remember, this is 100-year-old news, and for the most part it's not that interesting in scholarly terms. Ashibaka tock 12:26, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Opposition to women's suffrage

Only 160 opponents, and only conservative MPs? That's complete and utter rubbish- a number of prominent Liberals opposed women's suffrage, such as Asquith; in other areas, he was a progressive MP. Or take this quote from Spartacus, for instance:

"In October, 1912, George Lansbury decided to draw attention to the plight of WSPU prisoners by resigning his seat in the House of Commons and fighting a by-election in favour of votes for women. Lansbury discovered that a large number of males were still opposed to equal rights for women and he was defeated by 731 votes." And I am certain that there were more than 102 people in Britain in anti-suffrage organisations in 1902. The source doesn't appear to make that claim at all. Instead, it states that there were 160 signatures on a single petition. If I launch a petition tomorrow, how will I be able to get the views of even everyone in my town, let alone in the whole of Britain?

Additionally, in Britain these groups are generally described simply as the "Antis". -- Dandelions 21:55, 11 May 2007 (UTC)