"If they have a moral power": Margaret Fuller, transcendentalism, and the question of women's moral nature. ATQ (The American Transcendental Quarterly) | December 1, 2005| | COPYRIGHT 2005 University of Rhode Island. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

In the 1994 movie version of Little Women, Jo March participates in an informal debate with a group of men over women's vote that captures well the various arguments on this topic in the mid-nineteenth century. One man expresses the traditional view: "A lady has no need of suffrage if she has a husband," while another responds, "If women are a moral force, shouldn't they have a right to govern, and preach, and testify in court?" Jo, however, responds to the illogic of both these arguments: "I find it poor logic to say that because women are good, women should vote; men do not ...

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