Plus ça change.
Plus ça change.
http://www.boredpanda.com/suffrage-postcards-anti-women-propoganda-voting-rights/
http://www.boredpanda.com/suffrage-postcards-anti-women-propoganda-voting-rights
http://www.boredpanda.com/suffrage-postcards-anti-women-propoganda-voting-rights/
http://www.boredpanda.com/suffrage-postcards-anti-women-propoganda-voting-rights
The theme there seems to be stark terror that the lives of men might start to become as bad as the lives of women. And no one will have even noticed that theme at the time!
ReplyDeleteIow, they knew domestic bliss was a propaganda lie, but didn't have a clue what to do now that it was exposed.
ReplyDeleteIt's interesting to look at the postcards in a few ways:
ReplyDelete1) It's not that much different than some of the BS that's used today about feminism/equality.
2) They definitely used a male model as one of the women in one of the few postcards that had photographs instead of drawings on them.
3) The trope of making the suffragette women looking masculine in appearance.
4) And a final, possibly only interesting to me: One of the postcards was date stamped 1/21/1909. I'd forgotten that libraries were date stamping collection materials that far back.