O'Hagan, L.A. orcid.org/0000-0001-5554-4492 (2020) Contesting women’s right to vote : anti-suffrage postcards in Edwardian Britain. Visual Culture in Britain, 21 (3). pp. 330-362. ISSN 1471-4787
Abstract
This article uses multimodal critical discourse analysis to explore the messages promoted by anti-suffrage postcards produced in Britain between 1909 and 1914. It identifies five salient themes across the postcards (subversion of gender roles; physical ridicule of women; mental ridicule of women; violence towards women; and an imagined future), arguing that, despite their aim of presenting anti-suffragists as united in their objective of opposing women’s suffrage, they contained clear paradoxical messages. It concludes that the postcard campaign ultimately failed because of the power of militancy, mass opposition to the brutal treatment of suffragettes, and the outbreak of the First World War.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an author-produced version of a paper subsequently published in Visual Culture in Britain. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Britain; Edwardian; suffrage; women; postcards; propaganda |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Sociological Studies (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 07 Jan 2021 10:03 |
Last Modified: | 17 Jun 2022 23:43 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/14714787.2020.1827971 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:169719 |