Women's Auxiliary

In this artifact, the unknown author writes a question about the underlined text in the margin. The author seems to be confused with the use of the phrase 'women's auxiliary.

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Bizzell, Patricia, and Bruce Herzberg, editors. The Rhetorical Tradition, 2nd ed., Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2001.

Lindsay Destine

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2000-2024

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unlined paper, typewriter ink, pencil

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The unknown author underlines the phrase "male-dominated organization with a women’s auxiliary".

political scientist Aileen Kraditor has shown. Also in 1840, the American Anti-Slavery Society split into two separate groups over this issue, one admitting women to full membership and the other remaining a male-dominated organization with a women’s auxiliary. By 1848, women’s growing awareness of their need for activism on their own behalf resulted in the first American women’s rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York.

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Lindsay Destine 04/27/21