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Should Women "Mix" in Politix?

THE SUFFRAGETTE.

SHOULD WOMEN "MIX"
IN POLITIX? NIX!

[Image: This card, Number 4008, is part of a sixteen-card series, featuring attractive women attempting to act as men. In this illustration, two women in gowns are fighting. Color on cream…

Tags: ACTIVITIES, American, Angry woman, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, APPEARANCE, Domineering woman, EMOTIONS, FASHION, female politician, Fight, Hat, Hatpin, Politician, Politics, PROFESSION, PUBLIC, Shoes, Umbrella, Unappealing, Unfashionable, VIOLENCE, Woman

"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

"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": 1

[Image: At the top of the postcard a headline reads, "Just by way of a Change." Below that a fashionably dressed woman in a hat is cycling. In the attached wicker-riding carriage is an elegantly dressed man smoking a cigarette. He is wearing a…

Tags: ACTIVITIES, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Appealing, APPEARANCE, Bicycle, Bicycling, British, Couple, COURTSHIP, FASHION, Fashionable, Feminine woman, Feminized man, Gender Roles, GENDER/SEXUALITY, Hat, Man, Masculinized woman, PUBLIC, Shoes, Smoking, TRANSPORT, Unappealing, Woman

"VOTES FOR WOMEN!" CERTAINLY!!

"VOTES FOR WOMEN!"
CERTAINLY!!

Here's mine for the candidate I
have selected
for my Valentine!

[Image: The Title of this horizontal, two-color process card (green and red) reads: "VOTES FOR WOMEN!" CERTAINLY!!. Here's mine for the candidate…

Tags: "Votes for Women" banner, Adultized child, AGE, Ballot, Ballot Box, Courting adultized child, COURTSHIP, EMOTIONS, FASHION, Happy man, Happy woman, HOLIDAYS, Love, PRO-SUFFRAGE, PUBLIC, Romance, Shoes, SUFFRAGE ADVERTISING, Valentine

Man shining woman's shoes

Tags: Abusive woman, ACTIVITIES, American, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Couple, Dining room, Drinking, FASHION, Feminized man, GENDER/SEXUALITY, HOUSEHOLD, Housework, Husband, MARRIAGE, PRIVATE, Shoe shining, Shoes, Wife

The Weaker Sex

THE WEAKER SEX.

Even when
you've pro-
posed and
been ac-
cepted, you
often feel
more or less
like this.

Tags: American, APPEARANCE, FASHION, Gender Roles, GENDER/SEXUALITY, PRO-SUFFRAGE, Shoes, Toy, Unappealing, Unfashionable, VIOLENCE, Woman

FOR "SPEAKER" OF THE HOUSE.

THE SUFFRAGETTE.

FOR "SPEAKER"
OF THE HOUSE.

HULLO! -ic-
M'LOVE,
GIM'ME
M'RIGHTS

[Image: Printed in color on cream cardstock. A fashionably dressed woman with a Gibson Girl hairstyle is holding a broom and appears to be haranguing her…

Tags: Abusive wife, ACTIVITIES, Alcohol, American, Angry woman, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, APPEARANCE, Bewildered man, Broom, Cane, Cigar, Clock, EMOTIONS, FASHION, female politician, Hat, HOUSEHOLD, Housework, Husband, Man, MARRIAGE, Politician, PRIVATE, Rights, Shoes, Smoking, SYMBOLISM, Unappealing, VIOLENCE, Wife, Woman

She's good enough for me!

[Image: At the top of this vertical postcard is the title "VOTES FOR WOMEN." Below the title is a young boy wearing an Uncle Sam suit--red and white striped pands, blue tuxedo jacket, white cumberband and shirt, and white, children's dress shoes. …

Let's pull together!

[Image: At the top of this vertical postcard is the title "VOTES FOR WOMEN." Below the title is a young boy wearing a white shirt and green short-pants. He has on white, mid-calf socks and flesh colored children's dress shoes. He has a…

Tags: "Votes for Women", "Votes for Women" flag, Adultized child, AGE, American, Bow, Boy, Child, Determined, gender, Gender Roles, Girl, Happy, PRO-SUFFRAGE, PUBLIC, Shoes, SUFFRAGE ADVERTISING, SYMBOLISM

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