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James Baresel is a freelance writer. Publications for which he has written include Tudor Life, Catholic World Report, American History, Fine Art Connoisseur, Military History, Catholic Herald, Claremont Review of Books, Adoremus Bulletin, New Eastern Europe and America’s Civil War.
Western patriarchy had nothing to do with blanket, across-the-board control of women by men. Patriarchal authority of husbands over wives was one form of hierarchical authority among others, some of which gave women authority over men.
Late in the 19th century, when the question of votes for women was controversial even among those well on the left side of political opinion, Lord Salisbury—the longest serving prime minister of the Victorian era and leader of its staunchest conservatives—had no objection to female suffrage. Committed to the traditional view that holders of elected office should be chosen only by those who bankroll governments, he took the position that since the vote had been extended to men too impecunious to pay much in the way of taxes, it would be reasonable to extend it to women from the taxpaying classes. Given a choice between the two, he probably would have preferred that the latter vote rather than the former. …Related posts
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