Women are people!

Alice Duer Miller‘s Women are people! is a brilliant work of suffrage-era satire, using light verse, irony, and epigrammatic argument to expose the absurdities of anti-feminist reasoning. Its poems transform political debate into memorable literary performance: concise, comic, and devastatingly logical. Situated within early twentieth-century American reform literature, the book belongs beside pamphlets, speeches, and newspaper verse that made women‘s enfranchisement both a moral demand and a public conversation. Miller was an American poet, novelist, screenwriter, and committed suffragist whose social position and education gave her unusual access to literary and political circles. Born into a prominent New York family and educated at Barnard, she understood both privilege and constraint. Her celebrated newspaper column, often titled Are Women People?, honed the witty argumentative style that shaped this book and helped make suffrage rhetoric accessible to a broad readership. This volume is recommended for readers interested in feminist history, political satire, and the literary culture of social reform. It remains lively, intelligent, and startlingly relevant: a reminder that ridicule can be a powerful instrument of justice.