Someone Must Wash the Dishes: An Anti-Suffrage Satire

(Exerpted from website: http://michelelarue.com/someone-must-wash-the-dishes) Many women fought against getting the vote, but none with more charm, prettier clothes—and less logic—than the fictional speaker in Someone Must Wash the Dishes: An Anti-Suffrage Satire. “Woman suffrage is the reform against nature,” proclaims our unlikely, but irresistibly likeable, heroine. “Ladies, get what you want. Make a scene. Make home a hell on earth—but do it in a womanly way! That is so much more dignified and refined than walking up to a ballot box and dropping in a piece of paper!" Cheerfully single-minded, our guest speaker contradicts every point she makes as she crusades to preserve the Home and save the Nation from anarchy. Marie Jenney Howe’s satiric “An Anti-Suffrage Monologue” was published in 1913, by the National American Woman Suffrage Association (precursor of the League of Women Voters). Directed by Warren Kliewer, this production premiered in March 1994, at New York City’s Womenkind Festival IV. More than 200 past sponsors include the Missouri Historical Society in Saint Louis, the Newberry Library in Chicago, and Mohonk Mountain House resort in New York State. This event is co-sponsored by the UConn History Department (Judy Meyer), UConn Waterbury Associated Student Government, UConn Libraries, and the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute.

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