Going Shopping
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Title
Going Shopping
Description
All for the Cause
[Image: It draws attention to the organized breaking of shop windows. Fighting with the police was a particular favorite of the commercial publishers. This usually involved presenting the suffragettes as either ineffective and hysterical in the face of calm authority (as below) or as enjoying the attention of the male police officers. Reports at the time suggest that this presentation was far from the truth and that sexual assaults on the women by police and the male crowds were ignored by the media.]
[Image: It draws attention to the organized breaking of shop windows. Fighting with the police was a particular favorite of the commercial publishers. This usually involved presenting the suffragettes as either ineffective and hysterical in the face of calm authority (as below) or as enjoying the attention of the male police officers. Reports at the time suggest that this presentation was far from the truth and that sexual assaults on the women by police and the male crowds were ignored by the media.]
Source
Michaela Borg Collection, Ms. Magazine, https://msmagazine.com/2010/07/20/shoulder-to-shoulder-uk-suffrage-postcards/
Publisher
National League Opposing Women’s Suffrage
Date
1912
Files
Collection
Citation
“Going Shopping,” The Suffrage Postcard Project, accessed April 20, 2024, https://thesuffragepostcardproject.omeka.net/items/show/355.