 Addams’ radical pragmatism ultimately had a feminist dimension. She continually gave voice to women’s experiences, addressed women’s issues, and saw a vibrant social democracy as only possible if there was full participation by both men and women. When it came to issues such as women’s suffrage, Addams manifests a feminist pragmatism. “If women had no votes with which to select the men upon whom her social reform had become dependent, some cherished project might be so modified by uninformed legislatures during the process of legal enactment that the law, as finally passed, injured the very people it was meant to protect. Women had discovered that the unrepresented are always liable to be given what they do not want by legislators who merely wish to placate them” (STY 89–90). Note that Addams does not argue the application of abstract human rights, but she instead makes a functional claim about the role of voting in proper democratic representation. It is not that Addams opposes rights, but she will continually opt for pragmatist arguments on feminist issues. Her male pragmatist colleagues were sympathetic to feminist positions but did not make the claims as forcefully or consistently as Addams (Seigfried, 1996).