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World War I era anti-suffrage cartoon showing two women kissing

This cartoon uses its iconography to present a dangerous “slippery slope,” using thinly veiled references to lesbianism to stoke fears of male emasculation, playing on the social…

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Hoping
you're in
for
a
good
time
this
Xmas.

May Xmas never prove
a 'sell,'
And naught mar your delights,
For when they give you 14 days,
You'll get your Womens Rights.

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ARE WE DOWNHEARTED? NO!

THE SUFFRAGETTES

VOTES FOR WOMEN

POLICE COURT

[Image: Postcard with a cartoon illustration of a police officer struggling to carry a woman who is holding out a "Votes for Women" sign from Police Court.

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"Where are you going to, my pretty Maid?"
"I'm going a-voting, Sir," she said.
"And who shall you vote for, my pretty Maid?"
That Duck in plus fours, kind sir," she said.

[Image: Illustrator Donald McGill's postcards proved hugely popular with…

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JUST TAKE IT FROM ME. DONT
EVER TRY TO TELL A HEAVY
WEIGHT SUFFRAGETTE THE
REASON SHE SHOULDN'T BE
ALLOWED TO VOTE.

[Image: A boy is standing and holding his head; one of his eyes is blacked. His hat sits on the ground next to him. In the…

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SHE IS DISTRIBUTING THE
U.S. MAIL AND INCIDENTALLY
ENRAPTURING
THE MALE

[Image: Part of a twenty-three card series, this card is labeled Suffragette Series No. 9. This charcoal gray illustration features a woman as a mail carrier.

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