Kate Chopin and the Suffrage Movement For the CSET

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retreats like Grand Isle (located on the Gulf Coast). Chopin’s use of a culturally foreign protagonist—Edna was a protestant from Kentucky, rather than a French-speaking Catholic Creole like her husband—casts cultural differences into even sharper relief.

Even though Chopin did not claim to be a suffragist, study of the Suffragist movement is very relevant to her body of work. Study of the movement not only highlights some of the biases against women at the time, but it also illuminates Edna Pontellier’s struggle for a non-traditional place in society.

Read this Wikipedia article on Kate Chopin then return to this lesson:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Chopin

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An article originally published in the 1991 Session Weekly of the Minnesota House of Representatives recalls the arguments put forth in objection to the Minnesota Equal Suffrage Association’s decision, early in the 20th century, to push for the right of women to vote in presidential elections. One lawmaker declared that all-male voting was “designed by our forefathers.” Later, Rep. Thomas Girling argued that “women shouldn’t be dragged into the dirty pool of politics.” Approving such a measure, he said, would “cause irreparable damage at great

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