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"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

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

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

The Suffragette Copess

THE SUFFRAGETTE
COPESS.

HOW'D
YER LIKE
TER BE
PINCHED?

[Image: Postcard printed vertically with SUFFRAGETTE COPESS printed at the top in red. The main character is a woman standing on the sidewalk. She is in a police uniform with frills…

Tags: American, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, APPEARANCE, Bloomers, Cross-dressing, Domineering woman, EMOTIONS, FASHION, GENDER/SEXUALITY, Hat, Hatpin, Man, Ogling, Police, PROFESSION, PUBLIC, Rolling Pin, Sexual harassment, Shoes, Unappealing, Unfashionable, Uniform, VIOLENCE, Winking, Woman

The Suffragette Judgess

[Image: Printed in color on cream cardstock. Entitled at the top of the postcard THE SUFFRAGETTE JUDGESS. A woman with Gibson Girl hair in judge's robes decorated with a green bow at the neck is looking down at a miniaturized man who is wearing red…

Tags: American, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, APPEARANCE, Arrest, Courthouse, CRIMINAL, Cross-dressing, Domineering woman, FASHION, Hat, HISTORY/GOVERNMENT, Iron, Judge, Legislation, Man, PLACE, Prisoner, PROFESSION, PUBLIC, Rights, Rolling Pin, Shoes, SYMBOLISM, Unappealing, Unfashionable, Woman

Women's Rights

photograph of two women showing their legs.

Tags: AGE, AMBIGUOUS-SUFFRAGE, Dress, FASHION, Hat, new woman, Photograph, Posing, Posture, Provocative, Shoes, Woman, Women's rights, Younger woman

Emancipated!

[Image: A masculine woman stands smoking by her bicycle while wearing golfing knickers with a golf bag slung over her shoulder. The text on the bottom reads, "Emancipated!"] Color; 9x14cm; Print

Tags: ACTIVITIES, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Bicycling, Bow Tie, British, Cross-dressing, Drawing, Golf Clubs, Golfing Knickers, Hat, Masculinized woman, monocle, PUBLIC, Sharp Nose, Shoes, Smoking, Standing, Unfashionable

There are Things That Even a Suffragette Cannot Do

[Image: A man in all black businesss attire stops on the sidewalk to tie his shoe as he smokes a pipe. The text on the bottom reads, "There are things that even a suffragette cannot do."] Color; 9x14cm; Print

Tags: ACTIVITIES, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, British, Drawing, FASHION, Fashionable, Gender Roles, Hat, Man, Patronizing man, pipe, PUBLIC, Shoes, Smoking, Suffragette, Upper class

The Suffragette.– "Down with Man Made Laws!"

[Image: A young girl in a pink dress and oversized hat speaking from atop a barrel, next to a "Votes for Women" sign in Trafalgar Square, London, England. She appears to be handing out information about the women's suffrage movement while an officer…

Tags: "Votes for Women" placard, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Bow, British, Canvasser, Canvassing, Child, Civil disobedience, Determined, Dress, Duty, Girl, Happy, Hat, Law, Lion, London, Mocking, NON-HUMAN, Pamphlet, Police, PUBLIC, Public speaking, Shoes, Soapbox, Standing, Statue, Suffragette, Uniform, walking, Working man

The Suffragette - Somebody Please Move this Horrid Man

[Image: A young girl in a pink dress throws a tantrum as she is blocked from entering into a building by a policeman who is holding up his hand as a gesture to tell her she is not allowed entry. The text along the bottom reads, "The Suffragette.…

Tags: Angry woman, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Assertive, Bewildered woman, Bow, British, Child, Civil disobedience, CLASS, Dress, Duty, FASHION, Fence, Girl, Inequality, Inferiority, Law, Liberty, London, Militant, Mocking, Police, policeman, Power, PUBLIC, Resistance, Rights, Shoes, Standing, Superiority, Uniform, Working class

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