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Suffragette Series No 10: Where, oh where is my wandering wife tonight?

Suffragette Series No 11: I want to vote, but my wife won't let me

When the women vote

Tags: AGE, American, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Bow, Chair, CLASS, COURTSHIP, FASHION, Fashionable, Feminine woman, Feminized man, Gender Roles, GENDER/SEXUALITY, Man, Middle class, PRIVATE, Romance, Woman, Young man, Younger woman

Results of the Suffrage victory

[Image: Color illustration of a woman walking out of the door, leaving her husband to take care of their child. The sign on the wall reads: "God bless our home."

On the verso, the card is addressed to Mrs. Fred [Ziveifel?] Hollenberg, Kansas, and…

"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": 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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