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"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.]

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Belligerent suffragette talking to elderly man and holding a "Votes for Women" sign.

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“If you will only marry me you can have all woman’s rights
Such as staying up on evenings when I’m out late at nights
And should such things not satisfy the longings of your soul
You can wash up all the dishes and carry all the coal
As a really…

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You're doing everything you can
To be a "take off" on a man
You succeed in the "take off"
Most everything's gone
Except your complexion
That's all "put on".

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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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Woman holding a blown-up poster of the front page of The Suffragette with the headline, "An Anti-Shock by James Barr"

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VOTE
BRITANNIA UNSEXED
ANTI-SUFFRAGE SOCIETY
THE A.S.S. -
"This, my dear Mrs Britannia, is a true & authentic
portrait of yourself if ever you get the vote."

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