Apr
27
Last Man Standing: Saudi Arabia
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Desert Kingdom Holds Fast to Refusing the Woman’s Vote Photo: King Abdullah, Saudi Arabia From America in 1920, to Kuwait as recent as 2005, this world has systematically witnessed nation after nation succumbing to the Curse of 1920, granting the Eveonian (of or characteristic of Eve) practice of women voting. Today, there is only “one […]
Apr
23
The First Woman To Vote: How the Woman With the Little Pail Leavened America
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Photo: Louisa Ann Swain, Laramie, Wyoming It was September 6, 1870, and a little old lady, now seventy, placed a clean apron over her housedress and prepared to go on two important errands that morning. Before she walked out the door, she picked up a little tin pail to take with her. The streets of […]
Apr
18
Women Are Not Equal to Men
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Photo: Elizabeth Cady Stanton When the first press release went out announcing the publication of The Curse of 1920: The Degradation of Our Nation in the Last 100 Years, I was surprised to receive a reply from Coline Jenkins, the great-great granddaughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Of course Stanton is the 19th century suffragist and […]