Describe the disability arguments used to oppose women’s suffrage in the nineteenth century.

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After reading these text, please reflect by responding to the following questions.

• According to Douglass Baynton, what categories have historians and scholars most studied in their efforts to understand the justifications for inequality in the United States? (p. 81)
• Baynton notes that the concept of disability has been used to “justify discrimination against other groups by attributing disability to them.” Find at least one example in Baynton’s work and briefly explain his assertion. (p. 81)
• In what ways have the concepts of “natural” and “normal” helped to establish the “universal, unquestionable good and right”? (pp. 82-83)
• How was Down’s syndrome initially explained when it was first identified in 1866? (p. 82)
• Identify two of the justifications for slavery that were based on disability arguments. (pp. 82-83)
• Describe the disability arguments used to oppose women’s suffrage in the nineteenth century. (pp. 84-85)