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Is This Right?

IS THIS RIGHT?

FRANCHISE

THE OPEN MARKET

Woman. Why can't I have an umbrella too?
Voter. You can't. You ought to stop at home.
Woman. Stop at home indeed! I have my Living to earn.

Tags: Basket, British, Capitalism, CLASS, FASHION, Inequality, Labor, Man, Market, Middle class, PRO-SUFFRAGE, PUBLIC, SYMBOLISM, Umbrella, Woman, Working class, Working woman

Mother. "Please, Mr. Burns, my baby ain't fit to be vaccinated."
John Burns. "No good for you to come here. Where's your husband?"
Mother. "At sea."
John Burns. "Well, be off with you, mothers don't count as parents."

Tags: Absent father, AGE, British, CLASS, Doctor, Health, Infant, Middle class, Motherhood, PARENTHOOD, PRO-SUFFRAGE, PROFESSION, PUBLIC, SYMBOLISM, Vaccination, Women's rights, Working class

"Votes for Women"

DON'T marry a suffragette

"Since Father Went to Work"

Tags: Abusive woman, AGE, American, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, CLASS, EMOTIONS, Fatherhood, HOUSEHOLD, Housework, Older man, PUBLIC, Washing, Working class, Working man

HI MISS! YER TROWSIS IS A-COMING DOWN.

Tags: ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Appealing, APPEARANCE, Assertive, Bloomers, CLASS, Cross-dressing, FASHION, Fashionable, Feminine woman, gender, GENDER/SEXUALITY, Hat, Inferiority, new woman, PUBLIC, Umbrella, Unfashionable, walking, Woman, Working class

"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": 4

[Image: Two fashionably dressed women are leaning on a bar, drinking alcoholic beverages. A waiter is polishing a martini shaker with a cloth and looking down his nose at the women. The bar is elegantly decorated and there is red carpet. The…

Tags: ACTIVITIES, Alcohol, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Appealing, APPEARANCE, Bar, British, CLASS, Drinking, FASHION, Fashionable, Feminine woman, Gender Roles, GENDER/SEXUALITY, Hat, Man, Masculinized woman, Middle class, PROFESSION, PUBLIC, Restaurant, Smoking, Woman, Working class, Working man

"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

"THE HOUSE" that man built: Statesmen

THE HOUSE that our Statesmen for years have controlled Ruling the world with mind fearless and bold;
Can Women expect
To rule such a HOUSE.
She that’s afraid of a poor little mouse:
NO! NO!! Suffragette your place in not yet,
Inside THE HOUSE…

Tags: AMBIGUOUS-SUFFRAGE, ANIMAL, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Big Ben, British, CLASS, EMOTIONS, GENDER/SEXUALITY, HOUSEHOLD, London, Masculinized woman, Mouse, NON-HUMAN, PLACE, PUBLIC, STATESMEN/STATESWOMEN, Suffering woman, Woman, Working class

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