LAURA GRACE ROBINS has a good article here on Susan Fenimore Cooper’s Female Suffrage: A Letter to the Christian Woman, published in 1870. Cooper outlines practical objections, as well as theological ones. She wrote:

This grand and holy religion, whose whole action is healthful, whose restraints are all blessings–this gracious religion, whose chief precepts are the love of God and the love of man–this same Christianity confirms the subordinate position of woman, by allotting to man the headship in plain language and by positive precept. No system of philosophy has ever yet worked out in behalf of woman the practical results for good which Christianity has conferred on her. Christianity has raised woman from slavery and made her the thoughtful companion of man; finds her the mere toy, or the victim of his passions, and it places her by his side, his truest friend, his most faithful counselor, his helpmeet in every worthy and honorable task. It protects her far more effectually than any other system. It cultivates, strengthens, elevates, purifies all her highest endowments, and holds out to her aspirations the most sublime for that future state of existence, where precious rewards are promised to every faithful discharge of duty, even the most humble. But, while conferring on her these priceless blessings, it also enjoins the submission of the wife to the husband, and allots a subordinate position to the whole sex while here on earth. No woman calling herself a Christian, acknowledging her duties as such, can, therefore, consistently deny the obligation of a limited subordination laid upon her by her Lord and His Church.

Lydia Sherman writes:

It protects her far more effectually than any other system.

We have never needed feminism, socialism, Marxism, Leninism, or any other ism. The commands, examples and inferences in the Scriptures free us from all the things mankind makes to enslave us. Like Marx, moderns are forever trying to find a system better than God’s. The old paths, where the good walk is, will bring rest to our souls: Jeremiah 6:16. The old paths of husband, wife and children, will do us just fine. You cannot improve on it with any new ism. Feminism touts freedom that is slavery. We do not need their so-called liberation. Christ already liberated women when he gave them His law to follow, which is not just freeing, but ennobling and full of blessings. No system ever invented by man has ever freed women that way.

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