The ‘envers du décor’ of Suffragette Imagery: Anti-Suffrage Caricature by Abby Franchitti

“…Among those were representations of the Suffragette and her goals, which they satirised by caricatures in their newspaper, The Anti-Suffrage Review, posters designed for their campaign and postcards.The specific aspect of the anti-suffrage campaign that I will examine in this paper is the use of caricature. …”
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Mary Augusta Ward's "perfect economist" and the logic of anti-suffragism by Coit, E

“…Marcella, I contend, represents gendered forms of economic knowledge, and this representation expresses the often misunderstood "difference feminism" that informs both Ward's anti-suffrage stance and her advocacy for women's education. …”

Jokes for women: suffrage and the sense of humour on the stage by Cairns, A

“…The League displayed a sensitive and, sometimes, angry understanding of the impact of anti-suffrage humour. In a politically motivated move, playwrights consciously rejected the narrative of the tragic and bitter woman both to emulate and defiantly invert such jokes, in order to assert the strength of women's humour. …”

Lost Purity. Social in Nineteenth and Twentieth-century Feminisms by Paola Persano

“…All this in a continuous play of actions and reactions, sometimes paradoxical, weaving together suffragism and anti-suffragism, contestation of the conjugal complementarity and the never overcome temptations of hetero or self-control.…”
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