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Ah' go lay an Egg

Ah' go lay an Egg –

WIVES
MEET
TONIGHT
VOTES
FOR
WOMEN
WOMEN
YOUR FREEDOM
IS IN QUESTION
STRIKE
MERE MEN

[Image: A woman in a chicken costume is surrounded by three children in chicken costumes. Behind her on the wall is a poster…

Mother's Got the Habit Now

[Image: A wife dressed in men's clothing walking away from her husband as he sits on a stool rocking their child in the cradle. The text above the image reads: "Mother's Got The Habit Now."] Color; Print

The Woman of the Future!

The Woman of the Future! When women have votes in days to come, Then things for poor mankind will hum!

Tags: ANTI-SUFFRAGE, APPEARANCE, Domineering woman, Drawing, FASHION, Fashionable, Future, Husband, MARRIAGE, Time, Unappealing, Upper class, Wife

How the Law 'Protects the Wife'

WIFE: "Sir, can you help me, my husband earns 30/- a week and only gives me 5/- for food for myself and children." LAW: "I cannot help you my good woman, you husband need only keep you alive, that is one of the laws of England."

Tags: Absent father, American, British, Childcare, Fatigued Woman, Finance, FOOD, Grandmother, Housework, Husband, Inferiority, Injustice, Judge, Law, Man, Older woman, Politics, Prejudice, Resigned, Rights, True Woman, Wife

A Suffragette.

Tags: Angry woman, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, APPEARANCE, Broken Dishes, Broken picture, EMOTIONS, Hiding, HOUSEHOLD, Husband, knife, MARRIAGE, Spade, Table, Threat of Violence, Unappealing, VIOLENCE, Wife, without children

A sweeping change of the future.

Tags: ACTIVITIES, Angry man, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, APPEARANCE, Broom, Chair, Domineering woman, Drawing, HOUSEHOLD, Housework, Husband, Lounge room, MARRIAGE, Reading, reversed gender role, Sweeping, Unappealing, Wife

Your Valentine

“If you will only marry me you can have all woman’s rights
Such as staying up on evenings when I’m out late at nights
And should such things not satisfy the longings of your soul
You can wash up all the dishes and carry all the coal
As a really…

Tags: ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Coal, HOLIDAYS, HOUSEHOLD, Housework, Husband, MARRIAGE, Masculinized woman, Poem, Quotation, Rights, Silhouette, Valentine, Wife, Woman, Women's rights

THE WORKER'S HUSBAND

Lady Canvasser. Have you a vote, Mr. Brown?
Loafer. ‘Course I got a vote, and shall have so
long as my wife takes in washing.

Tags: Appealing, APPEARANCE, Artist's Suffrage League, British, Canvasser, CLASS, FASHION, Fashionable, Hat, Husband, Labor, Laundry, Middle class, Middle-class woman, PRO-SUFFRAGE, PROFESSION, PUBLIC, Wife, Working class, Working man

ARE YOU . . . . . MR. HENPECKO?

ARE YOU . . . . .
MR. HENPECKO?

VOTES FOR HENS

Tags: "Votes for Women" sash, ACTIVITIES, AGE, American, Angry, Angry man, ANIMAL, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Chick, Chicken, Cockerel, Cradle, EMOTIONS, Fatherhood, HOUSEHOLD, Husband, Infant, Motherhood, NON-HUMAN, PARENTHOOD, PRIVATE, Smoking, SUFFRAGE ADVERTISING, VIOLENCE, Wife

"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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