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Votes for Women: 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…

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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

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[Image: Labeled Series No. 767, this card contains a color…

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[Image: A man is being kicked out of a brick building by seven women who are portrayed as old or unattractive, or both. All are wearing boots and plain dresses. The main female character is wearing a "Votes for Woman" button and on the bottom of…

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World War I era anti-suffrage cartoon showing two women kissing

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…

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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."
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