#2ndwavefeminism

The granting of the vote to the suffrage movement killed the Woman's Rights Movement. Though the antifeminist forces appeared to give in, they did so in name only. They never lost. By the time the vote was granted, the long channeling of feminist energies into the limited goal of suffrage - seen initially as only one step to political power - had thoroughly depleted the Woman's Rights Movement. The monster Ballot had swallowed everything else. Three generations had elapsed from the time of the inception of the Woman's Rights Movement; the master-planners all were dead. The women who later joined the feminist movement to work for the single issue of the vote had never had time to develop a broader consciousness: by then they had forgotten what the vote was for. The oppression had had its way