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Votes for Mothers

Politics governs
even the purity of the
milk supply.
It is not outside the home
but
inside
the
baby.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Tags: Activist, AGE, American, California, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, FOOD, HISTORICAL FIGURES, HOUSEHOLD, Infant, Milk, Motherhood, PARENTHOOD, PRIVATE, PRO-SUFFRAGE, Toy

[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

What I says is

"WHAT I SAYS IS: BE GOOD TO THE
CAT, AND YOU SAVE HALF YOUR
POT WASHING."

Tags: AGE, Angry, Angry woman, ANIMAL, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, APPEARANCE, British, Cat, CLASS, Domestic servant, EMOTIONS, FASHION, Fashionable, FOOD, Kitchen, Middle class, Milk, NON-HUMAN, Older woman, PRIVATE, Unappealing, Working class, Working woman

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Votes for Mothers

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What I says is