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- Tags: Lesbian iconography
VOTES FOR WOMEN
WHAT WE WANT
BUT WE'LL
'AVE IT!!!
The Suffragette nails her colours to the mast
[Here the suffragette is depicted as a masculine woman wearing manly clothing including a pork pie hat, this being at the time a direct reference to lesbianism. Those opposing female…
The Suffragette
The thing that really gets our goat
Is how you think you'll get the vote
By standing as a sample show
Of "government by petticoat."
VOTES
FOR
SKIRTS
HELP
[Image: Labeled Series No. 767, this card contains a color…
THE SUFFRAGETTE
Nails her Colours to the Mast.
ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF A SUFFRAGETTE.
At 20 a little Coquette.
At 40 Not married yet!
At 50 a suffragette.
Tags: "Votes for Women" banner, AGE, American, Angry, Angry woman, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, British, Children, Coquette, Doll, FASHION, Feminine woman, GENDER/SEXUALITY, Hatchet, Lesbian iconography, MARRIAGE, Masculinized woman, Militant, Older woman, PRIVATE, PUBLIC, Queer, SUFFRAGE ADVERTISING, Suffragette, SYMBOLISM, VIOLENCE, Younger woman
Meeting of Cabinet Ministers 1978
GIRLS I DIDN'T MARRY: The Suffragette
Tags: "Votes for Women" banner, Abusive woman, AGE, American, Angry, Angry woman, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Bewilderment, Crowd, Domineering woman, EMOTIONS, FASHION, Fight, GENDER/SEXUALITY, Goofy Teeth, Harrassment, Lesbian iconography, Older man, Older woman, Physical violence, Pin, Power, PUBLIC, Queer, Rights, Sharp Nose, Suffrage advertisement, SUFFRAGE ADVERTISING, Suffrage Memorabilia, Suffragist, top hat, Unfashionable, VIOLENCE, Women's rights decoration, Women's Social and Political Union
Girls are doing all the fellows jobs now
This cartoon uses its iconography to present a dangerous “slippery slope,” using thinly veiled references to lesbianism to stoke fears of male emasculation, playing on the social…
Tags: ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Dog, Fashionable, Hat, Kissing, Lesbian iconography, Outside, PUBLIC, Umbrella, World War I
Be My Valentine! Votes for Skirts
HELP
THE SUFFRAGETTE
The thing that really gets your goat
Is how you think you'll get the vote
By Standing as a sample show
Of "government by petticoat."