Are Women People? A Book of Rhymes for Suffrage Times
Alice Duer Miller
65 chapters · 1 h 19 min · English
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Satire · Poetry
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A collection of poetry and some other short works by suffragist Alice Duer MIller. Many of these satirical works were first published in the New York Times. The work consists of five sections: Treacherous Texts, Campaign Material (For Both Sides), Women's Sphere, A Masque of Teachers, and The Unconscious Suffragists. (Summary by mleigh)
Chapters
1 Introduction 1 min 2 Are Women People? 2 min 3 Our Idea of Nothing at All 1 min 4 Lines to Mr. Bowdle of Ohio 2 min 5 On Not Believing All You Hear 1 min 6 The Revolt of Mother 1 min 7 The Gallant Sex 1 min 8 Representation 1 min 9 Sonnet 1 min 10 To President Wilson 1 min 11 Home and Where It Is 1 min 12 The Maiden's Vow 1 min 13 Such Nonsense 1 min 14 A Suggested Campaign Song 2 min 15 The Woman of Charm 2 min 16 A Modern Proposal 1 min 17 The Newer Lullaby 1 min 18 The Protected Sex 1 min 19 Warning to Suffragists 1 min 20 Partners 1 min 21 What Governments Say to Women 1 min 22 Oh, That 'Twere Possible! 2 min 23 The Times Editorials 1 min 24 Our Own Twelve Anti-suffragist Reasons 2 min 25 Why We Oppose Pockets for Women 1 min 26 Fashion Notes: Past and Present 1 min 27 Why We Oppose Women Travelling in Railway Trains 1 min 28 Why We Oppose Schools for Children 2 min 29 But Then Who Cares for Figures 1 min 30 Why We Oppose Votes for Men 1 min 31 The Logic of the Law 1 min 32 Consistency 1 min 33 Sometimes We're Ivy, and Sometimes We're Oak 1 min 34 Do You Know 2 min 35 Interviews With Celebrated Anti-Suffragists 1 min 36 Another of Those Curious Coincidences 1 min 37 The New Freedom 1 min 38 To the Great Dining Out Majority 1 min 39 Many Men to Any Woman 1 min 40 A Sex Difference 1 min 41 Advice to Heroines 1 min 42 Mutual Vows 1 min 43 If They Meant All They Said 1 min 44 Democracy 1 min 45 Feminism 1 min 46 The Warning 1 min 47 Evolution 1 min 48 Intercepted 1 min 49 The Universal Answer 1 min 50 Candor 2 min 51 What Every Woman Must Not Say 1 min 52 Chivalry 1 min 53 Women 2 min 54 Beware! 1 min 55 Male Philosophy 1 min 56 From a Man's Point of View 1 min 57 Glory 1 min 58 Dependence 1 min 59 Playthings 1 min 60 Militants 1 min 61 A Lady's Choice 1 min 62 The Ballad of Lost Causes 1 min 63 Thoughts at an Anti Meeting 1 min 64 The Ideal Candidates 3 min 65 The Unconscious Suffragists 3 min
