Secondary Source

Thesis: Drawing on Women: Representations of Women and Suffrage Imagery in The Masses, 1913-1917

Marie Clifford. "Drawing on Women: Representations of Women and Suffrage Imagery in The Masses, 1913-1917." MA Thesis. University of Alberta, 1991.

Era: Post-Suffrage Era | Media: Academic Paper, Illustration, Magazines

This masters thesis examines depictions of female suffragists and other women in the now-defunct socialist magazine The Masses. The following excerpt comes from the paper’s abstract: This study examines the […] Read More

Secondary Source

Women’s Suffrage Prison Narratives

Jane Marcellus, Ed. Philip Edward Phillips. Prison Narratives from Boethius to Zana. Palgrave MacMillan, 2014. (pp. 133-156).

Era: Post-Suffrage Era | Media: Book Chapter, Book-Academic, Book-Non-Fiction, Magazines, Speech

Prison Narratives from Boethius to Zana examines selected works of writers, from the 6th century to the 21st, imprisoned for their beliefs. The book’s seventh chapter, “‘From Prison to People’: […] Read More

Teaching Suffrage Source

Teaching Guide: Scholastic’s Women’s Suffrage Unit

Women's Suffrage Teacher's Guide. Scholastic Corporation, 1996.

Era: Post-Suffrage Era | Media: Encyclopedia Entry, Web-based

This teaching guide from Scholastic is designed to help elementary and middle school teachers plan and carry out lessons and assessments about women’s suffrage, both in the United States and […] Read More

Secondary Source

Suffrage and the Silver Screen

Amy Shore. Suffrage and the Silver Screen (Framing Film Series). New York, NY: Peter Lang, 2014.

Era: Post-Suffrage Era | Media: Book-Academic, Book-Non-Fiction

Suffrage and the Silver Screen explores how suffragists used the new medium of film to advance their cause. About the book: In the 1910s, the American woman suffrage movement became […] Read More

Secondary Source

TV Series: Up the Women (2013-2015)

Up the Women. Director: Christine Gernon. Performers: Jessica Hynes, Rebecca Front, Vicki Pepperdine, Adrian Scarborough, Judy Parfitt. BBC Two, 2013.

Era: Post-Suffrage Era | Media: Entertainment, Television, Video

Up the Women is a BBC Two sitcom about British suffragists, created by and starring Jessica Hynes. It begins in 1910 and is centered on the women of the Banbury […] Read More

Secondary Source

Women’s Suffrage: A Cinematic Study

Suzanne Bouclin. Women’s Suffrage: A Cinematic Study. Revue LISA / LISA E-journal, Vol. XII-n°7, 2014.

Era: Post-Suffrage Era | Media: Academic Paper

This article—a case study of the film Iron Jawed Angels analyzed in a legal context— is available from the Lisa Revues website. The following is the article’s abstract: Cinema reflects actualities about law […] Read More