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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

"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

"IF WE CAN'T HAVE THE VOTE, WE CAN WEAR THE TROUSERS!"

"IF WE CAN'T HAVE THE VOTE, WE
CAN WEAR THE TROUSERS!"

[Image: Staged photograph of suffragette in Paul Poiret's harem pants haranguing a group of men.]

"In the dim and speculative future"

"In the dim and speculative future"

THIS YEAR–
NEXT YEAR–
SOMETIME–
! ! !

[Image: Postcard designed by Gladys Letcher of the Suffrage Atelier, contains an illustration of Prime Minister Asquith delaying the vote for woman's suffrage.

The…

Tags: Basket, British, CLASS, Cross-dressing, FASHION, Flowers, Future, Gender Roles, Man, Middle class, PLANT, PRO-SUFFRAGE, PUBLIC, Sundial

"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

"Just by way of a Change": 1

[Image: At the top of the postcard a headline reads, "Just by way of a Change." Below that a fashionably dressed woman in a hat is cycling. In the attached wicker-riding carriage is an elegantly dressed man smoking a cigarette. He is wearing a…

Tags: ACTIVITIES, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Appealing, APPEARANCE, Bicycle, Bicycling, British, Couple, COURTSHIP, FASHION, Fashionable, Feminine woman, Feminized man, Gender Roles, GENDER/SEXUALITY, Hat, Man, Masculinized woman, PUBLIC, Shoes, Smoking, TRANSPORT, Unappealing, Woman

"Just by way of a Change": 2

[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

[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

"Just by way of a Change": 4

[Image: Two fashionably dressed women are leaning on a bar, drinking alcoholic beverages. A waiter is polishing a martini shaker with a cloth and looking down his nose at the women. The bar is elegantly decorated and there is red carpet. The…

Tags: ACTIVITIES, Alcohol, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Appealing, APPEARANCE, Bar, British, CLASS, Drinking, FASHION, Fashionable, Feminine woman, Gender Roles, GENDER/SEXUALITY, Hat, Man, Masculinized woman, Middle class, PROFESSION, PUBLIC, Restaurant, Smoking, Woman, Working class, Working man

"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

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