‘Laugh a defiance, Laugh in hope’: Suffrage Comedy and Humour as Political Protest by Eleanor Stewart

“…Whilst hostile anti-suffragist discourse accused feminists of lacking a sense of humour, the comedies portray the resolutely cheerful and feisty female activists as agents of humour. …”
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The ‘envers du décor’ of Suffragette Imagery: Anti-Suffrage Caricature by Abby Franchitti

“…The visible historical discourse that surrounds ‘the woman question’, and more specifically speaking, the acquisition of the women’s right to vote, most frequently evokes the question from the Suffragette or the Suffragist point of view. Articles, books, photographs and exhibits centre on the unrelenting combat waged for sexual equality, the vote on the ‘same terms as men’. …”
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Public Transmission, and Religious Symbolism in the British Women’s Suffrage Movement: The Cases of Emily Wilding Davison’s Funeral and the Pilgrimage of the National Union of Wome... by Chloé Clément

“…Whether it was by celebrating martyrdom and the self-sacrificing spirit of suffragettes or organising a suffragist Pilgrimage to illustrate the power constitutional methods could hold, processions and religious symbolism blended to integrate the transmission of secular organisations. …”
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The Boston Women’s Educational and Industrial Union: When Business Undergirded Claims to Political Participation (1877-1920) by Jeanne Boiteux

“…Before the Nineteenth Amendment, at a time of municipal reform, female reformers—even those who were not suffragists—used their shared social background with politicians in a show of gendered class interests. …”
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