This book presents theoretical and historical sources focusing on a single issue, the struggle for women's suffrage. It explores women's nature and discusses how different views of women's nature have direct implications concerning public licies. The book's narrow focus allows one to follow different lines of argument directed at a single issue, as opposed to a t widely different debates, as are common in most other collections. Selections present clear accounts of different nceptions men's nature and their practical implications providing historical, as well as, theoretical insights. Presents historical and theoretical sources, including substantial selections from the important theoretical works of J.S. Mill and Mary lstonecraft. cludes sources from both the U.S. and Britain. Includes substantial selections from anti-suffrage sources— he only book to ature an in-depth debate on one of the most important issue of the Women's Movement: the right to vote; enables readers ace the practical implications of widely different conceptions of women's nature.