More from Esther C. Pohl, "An Argument for Woman Suffrage" [Salem] Capital Journal, May 18, 1912, 6.
"... Some opponents to the enfranchisement of women argue that governments depend on force, and women cannot fight, therefore, they should not vote. It will be interesting to read the petitions for disfranchisement which these gentlemen will surely present at the dawn of universal peace. In the meantime women will continue to serve as nurses in times of war, and at a greater risk to their lives than soldiers themselves incur, will produce every man who goes to the front. Insurance companies make a study of life risks, and while none of them discriminate against men on account of potential war, many of them discriminate against women, even in this sterile age, on account of potential motherhood."
Oregon's Doctor to the World: Esther Pohl Lovejoy and a Life in Activism
Mobilizing Minerva
Women and Transnational Activism
About Me
- Kimberly Jensen
- Kimberly Jensen received her Ph.D. from the University of Iowa in women’s and U.S. history and teaches history and gender studies at Western Oregon University. She is the author of Oregon's Doctor to the World: Esther Pohl Lovejoy and a Life in Activism (University of Washington Press, 2012), Mobilizing Minerva: American Women in the First World War (University of Illinois Press, 2008) and coeditor, with Erika Kuhlman, of Women and Transnational Activism in Historical Perspective (Dordrecht: Republic of Letters, 2010). She is working on a new book project tentatively titled “Civic Borderlands: Oregon Women’s Claims to Citizenship and Civil Liberties, 1913-1924”