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RELUCTANT SUFFRAGIST, UNWITTING FEMINIST: THE AMBIVALENT POLITICAL VOICE OF CORRA HARRIS
Author(s) -
Badura Catherine
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
southeastern political review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1747-1346
pISSN - 0730-2177
DOI - 10.1111/j.1747-1346.2000.tb00113.x
Subject(s) - ambivalence , politics , suffrage , feminism , premise , political science , law , psychoanalysis , philosophy , psychology , linguistics
This research explores some of the political ideas of Georgia novelist Corra White Harris (1869‐ 1935). Harris's ambivalent political positions are juxtaposed with two of her Georgia contemporaries–suffragist Rebecca Latimer Felton and anti‐suffragist Mildred Lewis Rutherford. A central premise of the analysis is that in her political uncertainly, though not in her particular opinions, Harris better represented women who never took a stand on suffrage or feminism than do political activists such as Felton and Rutherford who were more confident in their positions.