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"EVERYTHING FOR HIM - NOTHING AT ALL FOR HER."

Those who ask shant have, Those who dont
ask dont want

Tags: AGE, Artist's Suffrage League, British, Chair, Children, Everywoman, HOUSEHOLD, Liberty, Motherhood, PARENTHOOD, PRIVATE, PRO-SUFFRAGE, SEX, SOCIAL IDENTITY, SYMBOLISM, Toy, Woman

Son help mere man

[Image: Three women with angry expressions on their faces enter a room as one man knocks over a table with a drink and playing cards, another man hides under the table, and the last man runs away. The text below the image reads: "Son help mere man"]…

Tags: ACTIVITIES, Angry woman, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Bewildered man, Bewilderment, British, British suffragette, Cards, Chair, Domineering woman, Drawing, Drinking, EMOTIONS, Gambling, INTERNATIONAL, Man, Surprised Man

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

What would I do with the suffragists

Tags: Abusive, Angry woman, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, APPEARANCE, British, Chain, Chair, Coercion, EMOTIONS, FASHION, HOUSEHOLD, Suffragette, SYMBOLISM, Torture, Unappealing, Unfashionable, VIOLENCE, 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

The Suffragette

Woman frightened by mouse, standing on chair.

Tags: ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Chair, Dress, Emotion, Fear, Lounge room, Mocking, Mouse, Photograph, Suffragette, Younger woman

I hear that everyone of note

I hear that everyone of note,
Soon will cast the suffrage vote.

[Image: A sketch of cupid or a cherub sitting on a stool while talking into a telephone. The caption is "I hear that everyone of note, Soon will cast the suffrage vote."] 9x14cm;…

Tags: ACTIVITIES, Adultized child, American, C.E. Perry Cupid Cards, Chair, Child, Cupid, Democracy, Election, Family, Nude, PRIVATE, PRO-SUFFRAGE, Suffrage, Telephone, Voting, Wings

For a Suffragette

For a Suffragette.
The Ducking-Stool and a nice deep pool
Was our fore-fathers' plan for a scold:
And could I have my way, each Suffragette to-day
Should "take the chair" and find the water cold.

Tags: ACTIVITIES, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Bridge, British, Chair, Ducking, HISTORY/GOVERNMENT, Lake, PLANT, PUBLIC, Puritan, Suffragette, Tree, VIOLENCE