Propaganda Women S Suffrage Movement Posters

It s estimated that 4 500 different postcard designs and slogans on the suffrage movement were produced some showing support for the movement and some ridiculing it.

Propaganda women s suffrage movement posters. A rare collection of suffragette posters have gone on display to mark the 100th anniversary of women winning the right to vote. These posters attempted to demonstrate that an alliance. In them you can see the frustration of men and women alike who were afraid of change and thought that granting women the right to vote will somehow ruin the world and the progress that was made. With attention bubbling around the women s suffrage movement postcards quickly became a popular propaganda tool especially for its opponents.

One of the social groups that the suffragists used in images was the working woman. Explain to the students that during today s class they will learn about a form of propaganda that was used in the women s suffrage movement in america. But women did become cartoonists and the suffrage movement was the impetus for their. An anti suffrage poster explained the beliefs of the movement against women s right to vote.

The seneca falls meeting was not the first in support of women s rights but suffragists later viewed it as the meeting that launched the suffrage movement. Provide background on women s suffrage movement from 1900 to 1920 to the class. The woman suffrage movement actually began in 1848 when a women s rights convention was held in seneca falls new york. See the whole collection of suffrage posters on picryl.

The student will examine propaganda posters from the american women s suffrage movement to gain an understanding of a the role that visual imagery played in the movement and b the ways american suffragists used other countries and other states with full suffrage as examples of why women should have voting rights nationwide. The beautifully designed posters one of the largest surviving. Sadly these mocking images still look vaguely familiar even in today s context where feminists sometimes even referred to as feminazis are depicted as irrational neurotic and even abusive. So did the anti suffrage campaigners who very quickly created their own visual propaganda and.

What a woman may be. Propaganda that they have seen on the internet or television. A racist anti suffrage pamphlet titled the truth about the negro problem was distributed by.