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Panel Discussion: Pant(aloons) to Pussy Hats: Style and Appearance as Change, Power, and Political Statement in the Women’s Movement.

A Panel of Presentations at the American Journalism Historians Association 2017 Conference in Little Rock, Ark., October 14, 2017

Era: Post-Suffrage Era, Suffrage Era | Media: Panel Discussion

  Report on the presentation on style at the AJHA Little Rock conference, which included significant suffage material and reference. The link includes images and slides from the presentations. Participants […] Read More

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Interview: Brooke Kroeger on “The Suffragents”

"How Women Used Men to Get the Vote" Excelsior Editions, SUNY Press, September 2017

Era: Post-Suffrage Era | Media: Author Interview, Book-Non-Fiction

In September 2017, Excelsior Editions published the latest book of Brooke Kroeger, an author and professor at the New York University Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. The Suffragents: How Women Used […] Read More

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The Husband-ist of a Suffragist and Other Parodies

Brooke Kroeger. "The Husband-ist of a Suffragist and Other Parodies." brookekroeger.com.

Era: Post-Suffrage Era | Media: Magazines, Newspapers, Web-based

As popular support for suffrage grew, the subject became ripe for satire. In this post, Brooke Kroeger, the author of The Suffragents: How Women Used Men to Get the Vote, looks at […] Read More

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The Masses: Suffrage Issue 1915

The Masses, Vol. 7, No. 1 [53]. November 1915

Era: Suffrage Era | Media: Magazines

In November 1915, The Masses, an early 20th century socialist magazine, weighed in on the raging debate over suffrage with an issue dedicated to the topic. This issue of the magazine, […] Read More

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How it Feels to be the Husband of a Suffragette

Him; Illustrations by May Wilson Preston. How it Feels to be the Husband of a Suffragette. New York: George H. Doran Company [c1915].

Era: Suffrage Era | Media: Book-Non-Fiction

This ironic, self-deprecating parody of a how-to guide is written from the perspective of an anonymous male suffragist—referred to only as “Him”—who is married to a woman suffragist. Humorously long-suffering […] Read More

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Max Eastman: “Early History of the Men’s League” 1912

The Woman Voter, October 1912, pp. 220-221

Era: Suffrage Era | Media: Essay, Newspapers

Max Eastman, the first secretary of the Men’s League for Woman Suffrage of the State of New York, provided this essay to the suffrage publication the Woman Voter, with his creation […] Read More