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Submitted by lancelot44 on January 30, 2007
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Women's Campaign for the Right to Vote
This propaganda poster, produced 16 years before women gained the
vote, explains the view of the campaigners by illustrating pictures of
what women may be and yet not have the vote. The pictures illustrate
women as a major, nurse, mother, doctor or teacher and factory hand.
This only applies to women of the higher and middle class, eg: women
of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) (National
Union who could afford such an education. It shows that women may be
successful even without the vote. Source A explains the importance for
votes for women by illustrating what men may have been and yet not
lose the vote. The illustrations show men as a convict, lunatic,
proprietor of white slaves, unfit for service and a drunkard. This
gives a bad view of men who even have the vote are not as successful
or wise as the women illustrated above the men.
Source A suggests the author wants us to believe that women can be
more successful than men, despite not having the vote and could gain a
higher status in society than men who are illustrated as unsuccessful
and in low paid jobs.
The idea behind this poster is to illustrate the determination of
women to get the vote. Not unlike many women in the past, such as
Florence Nightingale and Marie Curie, who stood up for their rights
and showed that even having a lower status than men, like the women
campaigning for the vote, they could not be prevented from standing up
for their rights.
Question 2
Source B and Source C both have similarities between them that
suggests women were seen as too violent and could not be trusted if
given the vote.
Source B describes the campaigners as a number of discontented women...
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