Responding to Susan B. Anthony's temperance work in 1853, the New York Sun published a screed noting that, "The quiet duties of daughter, wife or mother are not congenial to those hermaphrodite spirits who thirst to win the title of champion of one sex and victor over the other." The imagined connection between social agitation and an unmarried state was so firm that even married activists got tarred as single, frigid, or unmarriageable.
( Rebecca Traister )
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