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    The Space Between “Justice” and “Expediency” in Woman’s Suffrage Speech, 1870-1920
    (2013) Lane, Heather; Dorsey, Bruce; Azfar, Farid
    This paper explores the rhetoric of the woman suffrage movement from a historical perspective. It maintains that suffragists were making arguments about justice and rights much more often—and for longer--than previous historians believed, and that such arguments appear to have been relatively useful in arguing for suffrage. It focuses on the late 19th through the very early 20th century, a period in which previous historians have claimed the “justice” argument was growing thin.