Making Connections

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  1. Would Susan B. Anthony (p. 971) more likely be in agreement with the thinking of Florence Kelley (p. 980) or of Marie Jenney Howe (p. 985)? Are there areas of agreement among all three of these women?

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    Making Connections: - Would Susan B. Anthony (p. 971) more likely be in agreement with the thinking of Florence Kelley (p. 980) or of Marie Jenney Howe (p. 985)? Are there areas of agreement among all three of these women?
  2. What similarities do you find between the arguments of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (p. 974) and Thorstein Veblen (p. 976)?

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    Making Connections: - What similarities do you find between the arguments of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (p. 974) and Thorstein Veblen (p. 976)?
  3. In what ways does the passage from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton (p. 978) illustrate the ideas of Gilman or Veblen?

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    Making Connections: - In what ways does the passage from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton (p. 978) illustrate the ideas of Gilman or Veblen?
  4. What concerns do Kelley and Madeleine M. Kunin (p. 991) share, despite their separation in time of more than a century?

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    Making Connections: - What concerns do Kelley and Madeleine M. Kunin (p. 991) share, despite their separation in time of more than a century?
  5. In what ways are the graphics Suffragette Madonna (p. 983) and Votes for Women (p. 985) alike and different in terms of viewpoint and rhetorical strategy?

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    Making Connections: - In what ways are the graphics Suffragette Madonna (p. 983) and Votes for Women (p. 985) alike and different in terms of viewpoint and rhetorical strategy?
  6. Which of the stereotypes that Howe satirizes do you see in the antisuffragette postcards?

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    Making Connections: - Which of the stereotypes that Howe satirizes do you see in the antisuffragette postcards?
  7. Which issues raised by either Anthony or Wharton are touched upon again in Gail Collins’s analysis (p. 988) of society’s expectations of women at the start of the 1960s?

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    Making Connections: - Which issues raised by either Anthony or Wharton are touched upon again in Gail Collins’s analysis (p. 988) of society’s expectations of women at the start of the 1960s?