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We want the vote

Tags: ANTI-SUFFRAGE, APPEARANCE, British, Drawing, FASHION, Flowers, Monstrous, Purple & Green Suffrage Color Scheme, RACE, Racism, Unappealing, Unfashionable, unwomanly, Woman

The Suffragette nails her colours to the mast

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…

Tags: "Votes for Women" banner, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, APPEARANCE, British, British suffragette, GENDER/SEXUALITY, INTERNATIONAL, Lesbian iconography, Masculinized woman, NATIONALITY, Queer, SUFFRAGE ADVERTISING, Unappealing

I WANT A VOTE

"A perfect woman, nobly planned
To warn, to comfort and command."

I WANT A VOTE

GIVE ME A VOTE AND SEE WHAT I'LL DO

[Image: Postcard depicts an ugly buck-toothed suffragette waving a flag, "I want a vote," above her head in front of the…

Tags: ANTI-SUFFRAGE, APPEARANCE, British, British suffragette, CLASS, Drawing, FASHION, Fashionable, Middle class, NATIONALITY, PUBLIC, SUFFRAGE ADVERTISING, Suffragette, Unappealing, Unfashionable, Voting, Woman

The WILD ROSE

The WILD ROSE, which Requires Careful Handling.

Tags: Abusive woman, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, APPEARANCE, British, CLASS, Drawing, FASHION, Fight, Flowers, Hat, Man, Middle class, NON-HUMAN, PLANT, Police, Prisoner, PROFESSION, Umbrella, Unappealing, Unfashionable, VIOLENCE, Woman

What would I do with the suffragists

Tags: Abusive, Angry woman, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, APPEARANCE, British, Chain, Chair, Coercion, EMOTIONS, FASHION, HOUSEHOLD, Suffragette, SYMBOLISM, Torture, Unappealing, Unfashionable, VIOLENCE, Woman

Going Shopping

All for the Cause

[Image: It draws attention to the organized breaking of shop windows. Fighting with the police was a particular favorite of the commercial publishers. This usually involved presenting the suffragettes as either ineffective and…

Tags: Activist, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, APPEARANCE, breaking of shop windows, British, British suffragette, Civil disobedience, Drawing, FASHION, Hammer, Hat, Hat pin, National League Opposing Women’s Suffrage, Suffragette, Unappealing, Unfashionable, VIOLENCE

Votes for Women

While in the act of voting, Mrs. Jones remembers that she has left a cake in the oven!

[Image (Ann Lewis Women's Suffrage Collection): On the verso, the card is addressed to Miss Enid Matson Hotel Prince Baudouin Knock-sur-Mer Belgium, and…

Tags: ACTIVITIES, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, APPEARANCE, British, British suffragette, Cake, Cooking, Domestic activity, Drawing, EMOTIONS, FASHION, FOOD, Glasses, Hat, Man, Oven, PUBLIC, Spectacles, Suffragette, Umbrella, Unappealing, Unfashionable, VIOLENCE, Woman

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