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"Just by way of a Change": 5

[Image: A fashionably dressed woman is outside her door attempting to put her house key in the lock. Her husband is leaning out of a window above the door in his pajamas. He has a watch in his hands that reads 5:00. There are two milk cans on the…

Tags: Absent wife, ACTIVITIES, Angry man, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Appealing, APPEARANCE, British, CLASS, Clock, FASHION, Fashionable, Feminized man, FOOD, GENDER/SEXUALITY, Hat, HOUSEHOLD, Husband, Inequality, Key, Man, MARRIAGE, Middle class, Milk, PUBLIC, Rights, Shoes, Wife, without children, Woman, Working class, Working man

"THE HOUSE" that man built: Minister

This is "THE HOUSE" that man built,
And this is the Minister weary and worn
Who treated the Suffragette with scorn,
Who wanted to Vote, and (a saying to quote),
Dared him to tread on the tail of the coat
Of the bold Suffragette determined to…

"The new woman."

A Suffrage Problem

Tags: Angry man, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Bed, Bedroom, British, Couple, EMOTIONS, FASHION, Gender Roles, GENDER/SEXUALITY, HOUSEHOLD, Housework, Husband, Man, MARRIAGE, PRIVATE, Trousers, Wife, Woman

A sweeping change of the future.

Tags: ACTIVITIES, Angry man, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, APPEARANCE, Broom, Chair, Domineering woman, Drawing, HOUSEHOLD, Housework, Husband, Lounge room, MARRIAGE, Reading, reversed gender role, Sweeping, Unappealing, Wife

ARE YOU . . . . . MR. HENPECKO?

ARE YOU . . . . .
MR. HENPECKO?

VOTES FOR HENS

Tags: "Votes for Women" sash, ACTIVITIES, AGE, American, Angry, Angry man, ANIMAL, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Chick, Chicken, Cockerel, Cradle, EMOTIONS, Fatherhood, HOUSEHOLD, Husband, Infant, Motherhood, NON-HUMAN, PARENTHOOD, PRIVATE, Smoking, SUFFRAGE ADVERTISING, VIOLENCE, Wife

Feeding a Suffragette by Force

FEEDING A
SUFFRAGETTE
BY FORCE.

SOUP

ICWT

[Image: From the end of September 1909, forcible feeding was the common practice of dealing with hunger-striking suffragettes who were protesting against the government’s refusal to recognise them…

Home, Sweet Home

Striking examples of a suffragette's "HOME" if they have any home.

[Produced as propaganda for the anti-women's suffrage campaign. This example of anti-suffragette 'hate mail' was sent to the headquarters of the Women's Social and Political Union…

Tags: Angry man, Angry woman, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, British, Chair, Drawing, EMOTIONS, Fight, HOUSEHOLD, Housework, Kitchen, Man, Music, Physical violence, Punch, VIOLENCE, Woman