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  • Essay / Essay on the Separate Sphere Mentality - 1793

    The “antis” scientist validated the anti-suffragist movement and the “laws” of the separate sphere ideology in a way that aroused support and mass public trust. While Albert Einstein was publishing the Theory of Relativity, the influential British scientist, bacteriologist and immunologist, Sir Almroth E. Wright, was focusing his energies on providing new scientific “information” about the capabilities of the female mind. In his letter to the London Times "The Unexpurgated Case Against Woman Suffrage", dated March 28, 1912, he speaks of the "emotional reflex" and other handicaps of woman's intellect. He discusses the thought process of a female brain, claiming that it has an “imperfect sense of proportion” and “over-influenced by individual instances; reaches conclusions on incomplete evidence” and focuses on “mental images” and not statements of reason. He goes on to explain that women "view their minds not as a tool for the search for truth, but as an instrument for providing them with material comfort in the form of pleasant mental images." Sir Almroth E. Wright believed that women could never be equal to men, because a woman's mind was inferior and used for frivolous things. His scientific opinion fueled the burning fire of separate sphere ideology and scientifically defended the "anti" movements in