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"I protest against Man-made laws."

"I protest against Man-made laws."

COUNSEL
WITNESS
VOTES FOR WOMEN

[Image: Postcard, printed, cardboard, polychrome, white border, black text, anti-suffrage cartoon depicting a suffragette being prosecuted in court, policeman in the witness…

Tags: "Votes for Women" banner, AGE, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, APPEARANCE, Book, Courthouse, Drawing, FASHION, Judge, Law, Man, Older man, Older woman, PROFESSION, Protest, Suffragette, Suffragist, Unappealing, Unfashionable, Uniform, Votes for Women, Woman

"IF WE CAN'T HAVE THE VOTE, WE CAN WEAR THE TROUSERS!"

"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.]

"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

"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": 3

Just by way of-3-Woman at Man's feet.jpg

[Image: A fashionably dressed woman with an up-do decorated with a black hair bow is on her knees proposing to a man. He is dressed in a black suit and seated in a red, upholstered chair. His pose is feminized, with a hand at his mouth and the…

Tags: ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Appealing, APPEARANCE, British, Chair, Couple, COURTSHIP, FASHION, Fashionable, Feminized man, Flowers, Gender Roles, GENDER/SEXUALITY, Man, Masculinized woman, NON-HUMAN, PLANT, PRIVATE, Romance, Unappealing, Woman

"THE HOUSE" that man built: The poor Suffragette

The House that Man Built – poor suffragette.jpg

THIS IS "THE HOUSE" THAT MAN BUILT,

AND this is the home
of the poor Suffragette,
And there's room for
a great many more
in it yet;
When they racket
and riot
And will not keep quiet,
We place them on plank
beds and very low diet;
To stop…

Tags: AMBIGUOUS-SUFFRAGE, Angry, Angry woman, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, APPEARANCE, British, CLASS, EMOTIONS, FASHION, Glasses, Holloway Prison, Middle class, PLACE, Police, policeman, PRISON, PROFESSION, PUBLIC, Spectacles, Suffragette, Unappealing, Unfashionable, Uniform, VIOLENCE