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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

How the deuce did I know she was a suffragette?

Tags: Angry man, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, British, British suffragette, Dating, Drawing, EMOTIONS, Man, NATIONALITY, Rejection, Relationship, Suffragette, VIOLENCE

I Ain't Done Nothing, But I Won't Do it Again

Tags: AGE, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Bedroom, Bewildered man, British, Chair, Childcare, Crying infant, EMOTIONS, Fatherhood, Fatigued man, HOUSEHOLD, Infant, Older man, PARENTHOOD, PRIVATE, Suffering, Threat of Violence, VIOLENCE

I AM NEUTRAL – maid and mistress

[Image: Part of a series of postcards, labeled No. 2178, 10 designs, "Neutral" Comic.

Cartoon illustration of a man hiding in a closet while two women argue in the kitchen. One woman says "I'm me own boss, see!" and the other says "You must do as…

Tags: AMBIGUOUS-SUFFRAGE, Angry, Angry woman, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, CLASS, Cooking, EMOTIONS, HOUSEHOLD, Housework, Husband, Kitchen, Man, MARRIAGE, Middle class, PRIVATE, Wife, Woman, Working class, Working woman

I AM NEUTRAL – suffragettes

In the distance two women face each other, pointing in each other’s faces. One holds a banner that says, “Votes for Women”; the other hold a banner that says, “Anti—“; question marks and exclamation points are drawn above them. In the foreground a…

I am saddest when I sing

Tags: Absent wife, American, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, EMOTIONS, Feminized man, Garden, GENDER/SEXUALITY, HOUSEHOLD, Housework, Husband, MARRIAGE, PRIVATE, Queer, Sad man, Suffering, Washing

I Told You So

THE SUFFRAGETTE.

"I TOLD
YOU SO."

THE MORNING SUFFRAGETTE
BULLETIN.
A NEW ERA OF
PROSPERITY AT
HAND.
WITH THE NEWS THAT
A SUFFRAGETTE HAS
BEEN ELECTED AS
OUR NEXT PRESIDENTESS,
SEVERAL FLATIRON
AND ROLLING PIN
FACTORIES…