First, the origin is limited because the text was written too soon after the events to fully understand their historical impact. Moreover, its editors were all members of the National Women Suffrage Association, white, and lived in the North, causing different perspectives, for instance the rival American Woman Suffrage Association or Southern women, to be unacknowledged. Additionally, the purpose of this book is greatly limiting; written to inspire more support for women’s suffrage, this text presents the movement’s history as a unified force accomplishing goals with little resistance; in reality, the movement had many different opinions and faced a lot of strife in accomplishing
First, the origin is limited because the text was written too soon after the events to fully understand their historical impact. Moreover, its editors were all members of the National Women Suffrage Association, white, and lived in the North, causing different perspectives, for instance the rival American Woman Suffrage Association or Southern women, to be unacknowledged. Additionally, the purpose of this book is greatly limiting; written to inspire more support for women’s suffrage, this text presents the movement’s history as a unified force accomplishing goals with little resistance; in reality, the movement had many different opinions and faced a lot of strife in accomplishing