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RE: How do we remember 1918?
Whoa! Thanks for expanding this Cynthia--super useful additions! I agree, we seem less concerned about gendering our subjects, which exposes a whole lot about us. I’m just surprised by the few (if any) direct mentions of women’s suffrage. Was WW1 not a watershed moment for the suffrage movement? I think it’s interesting to see President Wilson directly mention this in his SOTU but little mention by us 100 years later.
Agreed, it is kind of befuddling, especially in hindsight that women will get the franchise within a couple of years. Anecdotally (because I don't have the sources to back it up in front of me), I think that suffrage was an issue put on the back burner during the war because it would look selfish to push an agenda like that in wartime. Maybe I'll write about it :) Wanna collab?