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"Be it ever so homely."

Tags: Absent wife, Adultized child, AGE, American, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Chair, Couple, Doll, EMOTIONS, Fatherhood, HOUSEHOLD, Husband, Lounge room, MARRIAGE, PARENTHOOD, PRIVATE, Suffering man

"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

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

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

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

Tags: Boy, Britannia, British, British flag, Children, Flag, Girl, HOUSEHOLD, Mother, Mother of the Nation, Motherhood, PRIVATE, PRO-SUFFRAGE, SYMBOLISM, Toy

"Is your baby fond of you?"

"IS YOUR BABY FOND OF YOU?"
"FOND? FATHER! WHY HE GOES TO
SLEEP ALL DAY ON PURPOSE TO
KEEP ME COMPANY ALL NIGHT!"

HOME
SWEET
HOME

MAY YOUR
TROUBLES
ALL BE
LITTLE ONES

Tags: Absent mother, Absent wife, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Appealing, APPEARANCE, British, Childcare, Drawing, Family, FASHION, Fashionable, Father, Grandfather, HOUSEHOLD, Housework, Husband, Infant, Man, PARENTHOOD, PRIVATE

[Image: A husband with a sad expression is stilling in a chair in his robe, pajamas and slippers. A young girl with a blue bow in her hair is spilling milk out of a bowl and onto his right foot. A young boy is pulling hard on the belt of his robe…

Tags: Absent mother, Absent wife, ACTIVITIES, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Appealing, APPEARANCE, Bewildered man, Bow, Boy, British, Childcare, Children, CLASS, EMOTIONS, FASHION, Fashionable, Fatherhood, Girl, Hat, HOUSEHOLD, Husband, Man, MARRIAGE, Middle class, Motherhood, PARENTHOOD, PRIVATE, PROFESSION, Shoes, Smoking, Toy, Unappealing, Wife, Woman, Working class

"Just by way of a Change": 3

Just by way of-3-Woman at Man's feet.jpg

[Image: A fashionably dressed woman with an up-do decorated with a black hair bow is on her knees proposing to a man. He is dressed in a black suit and seated in a red, upholstered chair. His pose is feminized, with a hand at his mouth and the…

Tags: ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Appealing, APPEARANCE, British, Chair, Couple, COURTSHIP, FASHION, Fashionable, Feminized man, Flowers, Gender Roles, GENDER/SEXUALITY, Man, Masculinized woman, NON-HUMAN, PLANT, PRIVATE, Romance, Unappealing, Woman

"THE HOUSE" that man built: Suffragette

THIS IS "THE HOUSE" THAT MAN BUILT
AND this is the poor little Suffragette
Who tried, Oh so hard, in this HOUSE to get:
Tho' it wasn't a crime
Still with patience sublime
She spends the best part of her life doing time;
OH FIE! Suffragette
Be…

Tags: AMBIGUOUS-SUFFRAGE, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Big Ben, British, CRIMINAL, FOOD, HOUSEHOLD, London, Militant, PLACE, Prisoner, PRIVATE, PUBLIC, SYMBOLISM, 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 woman's place is in her home

A woman's place is in
her home

VOTES FOR WIMMEN

VOTES FOR WOMEN

Ain't it lovely to be married?

Ain't it lovely
to be
married?

[Image: Part of a series of postcards, this card is labeled Series No. 534. The color illustration on the front shows a man scrubbing a floor while his wife stands there holding a rolling pin, her hands on her…

Tags: American, Angry, Angry woman, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, APPEARANCE, Coercion, EMOTIONS, FASHION, Fashionable, Gender Roles, GENDER/SEXUALITY, HOUSEHOLD, Housework, Husband, Man, PRIVATE, Surprise, Surprised Man, Unappealing, Wife, Woman

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