{"product_id":"vintage-tweets-suffrage-era-postcards","title":"Vintage Tweets: Suffrage Era Postcards","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe illustrations in\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eVintage Tweets: Suffrage Era Postcards\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eare much like the Internet memes of today. The images include exaggerated caricatures accompanied by commentary that spread rapidly through the post media of the 19th and early 20th centuries.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book’s narrative explains how certain images were used and by which organization. One of the anti-Suffrage postcards included in the book features an illustration of a rooster that reads, “my old woman wants to wear spurs!” Another, by the Dunston- Weiler Lithograph Co., is a father sitting in a rocking chair surrounded by his children, imply the mother has abandoned her family to attend a woman suffrage meeting. It reads “What is home without a father?” And below, “I don’t care if she never comes back.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe author’s narrative explores the meaning behind the illustrations and tells of the support for and opposition to the early women’s movement. The postcards’ illustrations are often amusing and sometimes shocking. They cover complex domestic issues of marriage, childbirth as well as other suffrage concerns, such as abolition, temperance and dress reform.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eVintage Tweets: Suffrage Era Postcards\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a unique visual tribute to one of the most radical eras in U. S. history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCarol Crossed was an editorial assistant for 15 years to the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew York State Feminist\u003c\/em\u003e, past editor of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eVoices for Peace\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand a contributor to\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003ePro-life Feminism: Yesterday and Today\u003c\/em\u003e. In 2006 Carol she purchased and restored the birthplace of Susan B. Anthony in Adams, Massachusetts. Four years later, it opened as a historic museum. In recognition of that accomplishment, she received the Northern Berkshire Massachusetts Business and Professional Women Award. Today she is president of Choosing Life of New York. She lives in Rochester, New York.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47630432043186,"sku":"18225","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0617\/4290\/7570\/files\/Vintage-Tweets.png?v=1782507452","url":"https:\/\/www.hmflaglerandco.us\/products\/vintage-tweets-suffrage-era-postcards","provider":"H.M. Flagler \u0026 Co ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}