Why Don’t Feminists Ever Claim Credit for Prohibition?
Question by diehard: Why don’t Feminists ever claim credit for Prohibition?
Feminists always claim they got women universal suffrage and that Susan B. Anthony was a Feminist, so why don’t that also take credit for the Temperance Movement as well? Suffragettes weren’t Feminists, and the group of women who started to call themselves Feminists came in on the tail end of the Suffragette Movement in the last 10 years, while Susan B. Anthony was also active in the Temperance Movement– comprised almost entirely of women– which sought to protect women and children from abusive drunken husbands, so shouldn’t Feminists also be claiming loudly that Feminism was responsible for The 18th Amendment?
Why are they so silent on their work in passing Prohibition?
“Some of the most notable figures associated with the U.S. temperance movement were Susan B. Anthony, Frances E. Willard and Carry A. Nation (the latter worked on her own). The effects of their efforts and thousands of other advocates included:
* Government regulation
* Instruction on alcoholism in schools
* Energized study of alcoholism.”
http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1054.html
Wild Sage: So are the Suffragettes (Feminists) who worked to get Universal Suffrage for women, but I see women claiming how Feminists got women the right to vote practically ever day…
Heathen: The Woman’s Christian Temperance Movement was only one of the many Temperance groups worldwide. I’m sure some of them weren’t Christians, but I’ll wager even the Feminists then were Christian as well…
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