Comic postcard
using children to express sentiments that would have been considered
inappropriate for adult women to voice. The adult message is
"No sex until women get the right to vote," but it
is portrayed as a children’s game to make the message humorous
and less threatening.
Children in this suffrage
cartoon represent the ideal of equal partnership between men
and women in political life.
The proverbial "Babe in the Woods"
expressing a wish for her mother’s enfranchisement. Click
here to see a detail from this photo.
