Elizabeth Lamont s More Than She Deserves - 1496 Words

Women’s suffrage is the idea that women should have the right to vote. Women have struggled for the right to vote for a long time because of the mindset society has. They believed women did not have the ability to comprehend what men were capable of doing. Women protested and bellowed their opinions to the world, a world that created a category to place them in and say they do not deserve suffrage. In Victoria Lamont’s article, â€Å"More Than She Deserves† her thesis is that in Wyoming, the women who were full time activist of women’s suffrage were not remembered and memorialized like the women who did not fully participate in the women’s suffrage movement. Lamont’s article gives an insight to the struggle women endured by using a woman that played a minor role in women’s suffrage, and yet the individuals who were active suffragists were not memorialized. To argue her point, Lamont uses Esther Morris to generalize that the entire area of Wyoming remembers women based on their slight participation in the women’s suffrage movement. On the other hand, Shannon M. Risk’s article, â€Å"Against Women’s Suffrage†, gives an insight on the arguments Maine and New Brunswick had and stated the actions each borderland took. The arguments that Maine and New Brunswick have are similar but are expressed differently with different results. Although, Lamont’s argument is more effective and useful because she uses one example to prove her point while Risk proves her point, but results with a weak